posted 05-02-2008 06:17 PM               

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An Autograph Collector's Dream!

One special copy of Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives is being offered for auction -- special because it contains autographs of 24 of the explorers featured in the book!

Signed by author/editor Jason Schoonover and The Explorers Club President, Daniel Bennett this copy is also autographed by such notable explorers as Buzz Aldrin, Eugenie Clark, Robert Pearlman, Capt. Norman Baker (Thor Heyerdahl's right-hand man), Jeffrey Mantel, and Stratton Leopold. Don't miss the opportunity to own this one-of-a-kind Collector's Item!

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posted 05-02-2008 06:23 PM               

Several cS members and friends wrote me with similar sentiments, having seen this auction listing and it took me as much by surprise as any of them.

To my knowledge, I have never signed a copy of this book but I am also at a loss as to who the "Robert Pearlman" it is that they cite. I know of a few other people with my name but none of them would fall under the category of "explorer," not to imply that I would either.

posted 05-04-2008 11:27 PM               

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Robert Pearlman was a senior marketing and communications executive in the nonprofit arena for many years. In 1984, he received a Lindbergh Foundation grant for intercultural communications for a project titled Learning How the Maasai See. The Maasai Mara Expeditions, organized and led by Mr. Pearlman in 1981-85, were also sponsored by The Explorer's Club and funded by Rolex Watch USA, Ambercrombie & Kent, and Discover Magazine. Filmed by British television for inclusion in a 13-part series titled Village Earth, the Maasai segment was later aired in the United States on the Discovery Channel.

Since 1987, Mr. Pearlman has volunteered with the Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation as a member of the Board and the Technical Review panel. In 1989-91, Mr. Pearlman worked as a USAID consultant for the government of Botswana, and from 1984-89, he was a member of Yale University's Council Committee for the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Mr. Pearlman also led a youth initiative called Planetfest, sponsored by The Explorers Club, that brought together 25 essay winners and Carl Sagan to watch the Voyager encounter with Saturn at Jet Propulsion Laboratories, in California. He produced pro bono marketing materials for The Cousteau Society for five years, and he was also a member of an Explorers Club sponsored Whale Rescue Expedition to Baja, Mexico, to test equipment for marine mammal strandings.

In 1998, Mr. Pearlman was awarded The Explorers Club Edward C. Sweeney Medal. From 1999-2003, he organized and led a series of expeditions to document Flaccid Trunk Syndrome, a mysterious disease that causes paralysis in African elephants. Mr. Pearlman learned to speak Maa in 1973, and has worked with, lived with, and has been involved with the Maasai for over 30 years.

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