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Dream Big and Dare to Fail: Julian Monroe Fisher

Written on July 24,
2012 by Chilton Tippin in Adventures, Expeditions

Adventurer and explorer Julian Monroe Fisher gave
a talk at Ted Talk in Austria recently with the title Dream Big and Dare to
Fail.

Fisher, a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society in London and an
International Fellow of The Explorers Club, gave the talk in the midst of a
five-year anthropological study of the continent of Africa.

In the talk he expounded on his life as an adventurer, which started when he
was keeping bedside vigil alongside his dying father. Seeing his father on his
death bed got him to thinking about what he wanted to do before he found himself
in that same position. And so he began to explore the world. The talk takes
listeners through the ups and downs of his adventuring life and concludes with
the message that dreamers must take big risks.

Currently, Fisher is in the midst of an ethnographical field study of the
entire continent of Africa. Called the Great African
Expedition, the study is broken into eight phases in which Fisher will
follow in the footsteps of some of the great 19th century explorers of
Africa.

He concluded the first phase, The Nile – Cairo to Khartoum, in May.  In
this phase, he traced the footsteps of British explorer Samuel White Baker, who
took a near-identical trip in 1821 and 1830.

In all the expedition is slated to take five years. The overall
goal: “to compare the 19th century Ethnographical research documentation of
the African tribal kingdoms along the rivers and lakes gathered during the
expeditions of the Victorian age explorers with the realities of 21st century
Africa.”

A five-year study of the entire continent is a great undertaking. Dream big
and dare to fail indeed.

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