Public Speaking and Presentations

Julian Monroe Fisher is an explorer and anthropologist. He has led numerous expeditions around the globe to include four Explorers Club Flag expeditions in the last four consecutive years.

Julian’s talks reflect the last twenty years of his life, some of the most extraordinary expeditions that have led him to over ninety countries on five continents. His tales from on the surface has the audience on the edge of their seats as he recalls his days when he was an international radio correspondent filing on-air ‘live’ reports from far distant points around the globe, the years that he lived in a Maya thatch hut in Southern Belize as well as his expeditions to Africa since 2007.

The stories, the excitements, the logistical nightmares, the frustrations and the motivation behind it all.

• an eye to eye encounter with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in Harare following an interview with the late newspaper editor Mark Chavunduka who had been tortured by Mugabe’s forces;
• chasing down Ronnie Biggs, the UK’s famed ‘great train robber’ while Biggs was hiding in the ghettos of Rio;
• questioning the current Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega during his campaign for the Presidency;
• bouncing around in a Land Rover with Dr. Richard Leakey in Kenya talking about poachers and their threat to wildlife;
• interviewing Dr. Jane Goodall about conservation of animals versus conservation of humans and their culture, in preparation for the documentary ‘Primate Questions of Conservation’
• loosing a 100 acre farm in Honduras to legalized squatters
• saving his wife and son from a deadly poisonous snake in his living room
• and meeting his hero, Norman D. Vaughan, by pure coincidence on a grey rainy day in Alaska