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In the debut episode of Renegade Naturalist Radio, Dan discusses how he retraced the journey of Lewis & Clark for his book, Passage of Discovery, and explains how his childhood love of adventurers lead him to Lewis and Clark's famous journals and ultimately fueled his professional desires.
“When I was in high school, I read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Antoine de Saint Exupery’s Wind, Sand and Stars and I wanted to be like them. They traveled, they sought adventure, they learned about foreign cultures and they studied about nature and wrote about people and nature. I loved that idea and I wanted to do that kind of thing, only be a scientist in addition.
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