Antarctic Adventures: Life Lessons from Polar Explorers
Nov 2016 · Balboa Press
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Antarctic Adventures is more than a set of guidelines for how to take control of our lives through goal setting, decision making, and problem solving. It is also an approach to living a productive life characterized by inquiry, critical thinking, learning to pay attention to natural wonders, and being fully awake to lifes mysteries and opportunities. Based on the authors experiences exploring Antarctica, this book finds life lessons in the most renowned polar explorers as well as those like Sally Ride, who explored outer space, and successful men and women in sports and business.
Antarctic Adventures is more than a set of guidelines for how to take control of our lives through goal setting, decision making, and problem solving. It is also an approach to living a productive life characterized by inquiry, critical thinking, learning to pay attention to natural wonders, and ...
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John Barell delved deeply into Antarctic literature at age thirteen, and his inquiries led to meeting Admiral Richard E. Byrd and sailing to Antarctica as part of Operation Deepfreeze to explore that continent. After Antarctica, he became an educator in New York City public high schools then at Montclair State University in teacher education and world literature (now professor emeritus). Subsequently, he was a consultant at the American Museum of Natural History where he continued his work fostering inquiry in school, home, and out in the field. See his projects at www.morecuriousminds.com.
John Barell delved deeply into Antarctic literature at age thirteen, and his inquiries led to meeting Admiral Richard E. Byrd and sailing to Antarctica as part of Operation Deepfreeze to explore that continent. After Antarctica, he became an educator in New York City public high schools then at M...
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