Aging explorer

James Michael Dorsey is an explorer, award winning author, and lecturer who has spent three decades visiting remote tribal cultures In 60 countries. With fewer than 7,000 active languages on earth today, these oral societies are in danger of being lost forever. Dorsey’s written narratives are an attempt to give these vanishing people a small public voice to tell the world that they exist. His three books are a chronological narrative of these societies ending with a definitive study of gray whales, the natural history, and the indigenous peoples of the gray whale sanctuary of San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja, where he was reside nt naturalist for 22 seasons. Dorsey is a former contributing editor at Transitions Abroad and has written for Traveler’s Tales, United Airlines, The Christian Science Monitor, Lonely Planet, Perceptive Travel, California Literary Review, Colliers, Los Angeles Times, Nowhere Magazine, BBC Wildlife, BBC Travel, Geo Ex, Wanderlust, Panorama Journal, and Natural History, plus several African magazines. His work has appeared in two volumes of “Best Travel Writing,” from TravelersTales, and appears in 25 anthologies. Dorsey is aretired fellow of the Explorer’s Club, and member emeritus of the Adventurer’s Club. www.jamesdorsey.com