[Nhcoll-l] Looking for stories

[Christopher Kemp]

Ha! That's true. Great book! I'm looking for stories that haven't been told
yet ... because I'm sure I can't tell that story any better than that.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 9:00 AM Callomon,Paul <prc44 at drexel.edu> wrote:

> There’s no better example of a disastrous expedition than the hilarious –
> and largely true – “White waters and black”:
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> https://www.amazon.com/White-Waters-Black-Gordon-MacCreagh/dp/0226500187
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> Paul Callomon
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> *From:* Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> *On Behalf Of *Christopher
> Kemp
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 29, 2021 8:53 AM
> *To:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
> *Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] Looking for stories
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> Hi All, you might remember me from when I asked the list for examples of
> species with long shelf lives for my book The Lost Species. I'm still at
> it. Collecting stories. I'm always on the lookout for a great story that
> needs to be told and I feel like someone already knows it. I would love to
> find a story of a collecting expedition with plenty of source material, or
> even two competing narratives, or an expedition that went missing, or
> everyone on it ended up hating each other or something. I don't know what
> I'm looking for really, but something with lots of aspects to explore and
> to write about. Let me know if any of you are aware of anything that fits
> the bill! All best to you all, Chris
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> "I am getting so far out, one day I won't come back at all."
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> -- William S. Burroughs
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