{"id":15485,"date":"2012-03-07T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=15485"},"modified":"2015-09-25T13:33:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:33:17","slug":"grad-spotlight-21st-century-explorer-adam-shoalts-ba-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/03\/grad-spotlight-21st-century-explorer-adam-shoalts-ba-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Grad spotlight: 21st century explorer Adam Shoalts (BA \u201909)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Explorer Adam Shoalts<\/p><\/div>\n

Think the whole world has been explored already? Think again.<\/p>\n

“It’s certainly true that the whole world has been mapped, but it actually hasn’t all been explored,” says Adam Shoalts<\/a>, writer, wilderness explorer, public speaker and Brock alumnus (BA \u201909).<\/p>\n

Graduating at the top of his class from Brock University with a BA in History, Shoalts has become an expert on the history of exploring. Shoalts\u2019s love of adventure, intellectual curiosity, and strong grounding in history has helped him to become a successful explorer.<\/p>\n

Shoalts\u2019s most recent major expedition was in August 2011, where he went deep into the Hudson Bay Lowlands. The 23-day expedition \u2014 sponsored by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society \u2014 explored a nameless river roughly 100 km long that no recorded expedition had explored before.<\/p>\n

In this video interview, Shoalts tells us about his expedition into the Hudson Bay Lowlands, his book Sense of Adventure<\/a><\/em>, where he liked to hang out at Brock, and lots more.<\/p>\n

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Want to learn even more about the life of an explorer?<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

In this \u201cbonus questions\u201d video, Shoalts gives advice for aspiring explorers, shares three of his Canadian explorer heroes, and tells us where he has explored in the Niagara region.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shoalts will be participating in an upcoming history alumni panel at Brock on March 22, 2012. Brock\u2019s History Department<\/a> has partnered with Mentorship Plus<\/a> to offer mentoring and guidance to the next generation of history graduates. The panel will speak to a first-year History class of 40 students.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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