"We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."
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​The Harvard Travellers Club is an organization that has provided a venue for adventurous travelers to gather and socialize since 1902.  

The club meets 8 times each year, holding over 875 meetings since inception. Our speakers include many legendary explorers, scientists, mountaineers and adventurers. 

An affiliation with Harvard University is not required for membership.
877th Meeting  
October 8, 2019
Bears Ears and Beyond
​David Roberts
We are very fortunate to have as our first speaker of the season our very own David Roberts, Club member, Club Medalist, intrepid explorer and author of 30 books about mountaineering, adventure, archaeology and history.

In December 2016, the Bears Ears National Monument was created, setting aside 1.3 million acres of semi-wilderness in southeast Utah, including the richest region in the contiguous United States for prehistoric archaeological sites.
The monument was unique in American history in having been first proposed and championed by a coalition of Native American groups ranging from Navajo to Ute to Hopi and Zuni.​

The book David is currently writing is about the Bears Ears, particularly the human history of this extraordinary region. During the last 25 years, he has made scores of trips to the Bears Ears and its crown jewel, the 1,200-square-mile plateau of Cedar Mesa, which has replaced the mountains of Alaska as his favorite place on earth.

He has hiked, camped, and backpacked all through the region—not only on Cedar Mesa, but on Elk Ridge, in Beef Basin, across the Dark Canyon wilderness, and along Comb Ridge, the first complete traverse of which he accomplished with two buddies during eighteen days in 2004.

The focus of his trips has always been to discover little-known ruins and rock art panels in the canyons and basins—the legacy of the Anasazi, geniuses of the vertical. Even during the last three years, after cancer severely curtailed what he could do in the outdoors, he has returned to Cedar Mesa every fall and spring. David will recount his best adventures there, complemented by a gallery of images of this unique cultural landscape. This is a meeting not to be missed.
The meeting will be held in the Massachusetts Room of the Harvard Club  on Commonwealth Avenue. Cocktails (cash bar) will be served at 6:00 PM, dinner ($71) at 6:45 and the presentation will commence at 8:00. Club meetings are attended by members and their guests. If you are not currently a member of the Harvard Travellers Club, but would like to attend this meeting as a guest, or would simply like more information about the Club, please contact Ted Wendell, tedw@HarvardTravellersClub.org.  

The dress code for our meetings is business casual.
The 2019-2020 Season at a Glance
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Bears Ears and Beyond
David Roberts
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​We are very fortunate to have as our first speaker of the season our very own David Roberts, Club member, Club Medalist, intrepid explorer and author of 30 books about mountaineering, adventure, archaeology and history.
In December 2016, the Bears Ears National Monument was created, setting aside 1.3 million acres of semi-wilderness in southeast Utah, including the richest region in the contiguous United States for prehistoric archaeological sites.
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The monument was unique in American history in having been first proposed and championed by a coalition of Native American groups ranging from Navajo to Ute to Hopi and Zuni. 

The book David is currently writing is about the Bears Ears, particularly the human history of this extraordinary region. During the last 25 years, he has made scores of trips to the Bears Ears and its crown jewel, the 1,200-square-mile plateau of Cedar Mesa, which has replaced the mountains of Alaska as his favorite place on earth.

​He has hiked, camped, and backpacked all through the region—not only on Cedar Mesa, but on Elk Ridge, in Beef Basin, across the Dark Canyon wilderness, and along Comb Ridge, the first complete traverse of which he accomplished with two buddies during eighteen days in 2004.

The focus of his trips has always been to discover little-known ruins and rock art panels in the canyons and basins—the legacy of the Anasazi, geniuses of the vertical. Even during the last three years, after cancer severely curtailed what he could do in the outdoors, he has returned to Cedar Mesa every fall and spring. David will recount his best adventures there complemented by a gallery of images of this unique cultural landscape. This is a meeting not to be missed.

David Roberts

Bears Ears and Beyond
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Michael Dosmann
​Rare Plant Hunting Through Japan and China


​Details to come.​

Michael Dosmann

Rare Plant Hunting Through Japan and China
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December 10
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Culture and Adventure in Uzbekistan
​Nancy Berliner
Nancy Berliner, PhD., is a historian of Chinese art and architecture and the Wu Tung Senior Curator of Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  Until 2012, she was the Curator of Chinese Art at the Peabody Essex Museum, spearheading and curating the relocated Yin Yu Tang, a 200-year old rural Chinese house, and authoring Yin Yu Tang, the Daily Life and Architecture of a Chinese House, selected as a Notable Book of 2003 by the New York Times.  She serves as an interpretive and curatorial advisor to the World Monuments Fund on the Qianlong Garden, Forbidden City, conservation project in Beijing.  
Nancy completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Harvard University, and she did additional studies at the Central Academy of Art in Beijing.

​For this talk, Nancy will speak specifically about her recent trip and scholarship regarding the art and culture of Uzbekistan.

Nancy Berliner

Culture and Adventure in Uzbekistan
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February 11
​Members Night

Members Night

​A selection of presentations by our members. Where in the world will they take us?
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March 10
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April 14
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May 19
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