Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu

Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu is
provocative look at the vital connection between human beings,
the natural world and meaningful knowledge.


While tracking a lion with a Samburu headman
and then, later, eluding human assailants who may
be tracking him, Jon Turk experiences people at their
best and worst. As the tracker and the tracked, Jon reveals how
the stories we tell each other, and the stories spinning in our
heads, can be moulded into innovation, love and co-operation — or
harnessed to launch armies. Seeking escape from the confusion we
create for ourselves and our neighbours with our
think-too-much-know-it-all brains, Jon finds liberation within a
natural world that spins no fiction.


Set in a high-adventure narrative on the unforgiving
savannah, Tracking Lions, Myth,
and Wilderness in Samburu explores the
aboriginal wisdoms that endowed our Stone Age ancestors with the
power to survive – and how, since then, myth, art, music,
dance, and ceremony have often been hijacked and distorted within
our urban, scientific, oil-soaked world.


Dr. Jon Turk is a scientist, author, and National Geographic
award-winning explorer whose worldview was altered by extended
visits with Moolynaut, a Siberian shaman.


He earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1971 and was nominated
by National Geographic as one of the Top Ten Adventurers of the
Year in 2012. Between these bookends, Jon co-authored the
first college-level environmental science textbook in North
America, followed by 35 additional texts, and five books about my
adventures. At the same time, he kayaked around Cape Horn,
across the North Pacific from Japan to Alaska, and around
Ellesmere Island. Jon has also made numerous first ski descents
and first rock climbing ascents around the globe. 


Jon's current work focuses on honoring the power of Nature as a
means of achieving Presence within the modern opulent,
scientific, corporate, and uber-political 21st century. He relies
heavily on the teachings of indigenous peoples who lived
sustainably on this planet for millennia.


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This episode was recorded on location in collaboration
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