Milbry Polk, 2010 WINGS Elected Fellow

"Find your passion, get connected, keep learning and questioning." — Milbry Catherine Polk

Founder, Wings WorldQuest/Writer

Hometown: Palisades, New York

Education: BA Anthropology Harvard University

Achievements

Discoveries: The long history of women explorers.

Expeditions: Western Desert, Egypt, Greenland, India, Tibet, Alaska, Saudi Arabia, Yemen Prince William Sound, Alaska; Western Desert of Egypt (National Geographic); Yemen; Southern Sudan; Saudi Arabia; Iran; Pakistan; Burma; John River, Alaska; Nepal; Brazilian coast; Greenland, Baffin Island (Students on Ice), Devon Island (Adventure Canada), India (American Museum of Natural History); Chinese Tibet, Andaman Sea.

Biography

Milbry Polk is the Co-Founder of Wings WorldQuest, the preeminent organization supporting women explorers throughout the world. She is the author/editor of a dozen books including; Women of Discovery, The looting of the Iraqi Museum, Baghdad, Egyptian Mummies, has contributed chapters to several books including the recent The Great Explorers (2010), and she is the reviews editor for The Explorers Journal. She lectures frequently and serves on the boards of museums, theater, news and arts organizations. Her photographs have been exhibited widely and she has been published in numerous magazines. Her own explorations have been in the Middle East and Asia and more recently in the Arctic and Tibet. She is a Fellow of Wings WorldQuest, The Explorers Club, The Royal Geographical Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. 

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Fun Facts

Favorite Item to have in the field: Camera, Bandana, Rope, Baggies

Heroes: Alexander the Great, all Wings Fellows

Awards and Recognition

2010 Fellow, Wings WorldQuest 2007 Women’s Environmental Leadership Award, Unity College, Maine 2005 Honorary Fellow, FRCGS (Hon) The Royal Canadian Geographical Society 2005 Arden Seminars Scholarship 2003 Leader of the 21st Century, WomensENews.org 1986 Outstanding Woman of the Year 1979 Robert Flaherty New York State Arts Grant (Film)

Publications

The Great Explorers (Thames and Hudson 2010) Contributor “Marianne North”
Norwegian National Schools Curriculum contributor 2009
Pennsylvania SSAT Contributor 2007-2010
Discovery Talk “Explorers” Card Game (US GAMES 2008)
The Quest (Lulu 2008) novel/ paintings by Cynthia James
They Lived to Tell the Tale (Explorers Club and Lyons Press 2007) Contributor
Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives (Rocky Mountain Books, 2007) Contributor
Explorers Journal Reviews and Contributing Editor (1998-present)
The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad Co-Editor (2005 Abrams)
“100 Best First Person Exploration Books of 20th Century” The Explorers Journal
As Told at the Explorers Club by George Plimpton (Lyons Press 2003) contributor
Exploration Series Editor (Chelsea House Publications 2004) Gertrude Bell, Alexandra David-Neel, Sylvia Earle, Mary Kingsley, Annie Alexander, Sue Hendrickson
Frauen erkunden die Welt (National Geographic/Friederking & Thaler 2004)
Women of Discovery Calendar (Rizzoli) 2003
Women of Discovery (Clarkson Potter, 2001)
Library Journal Award Best Books of 2001
School Library Journal Best Books 2002
Egyptian Mummies (Dutton/Penguin. 1997)
Margaret A. Edwards Award 1998 Best Books
YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 1998
The History of Arabian Transportation Cambridge Univ Press
"Legacy" Public Television series on World History RESEARCHER (1982)
"ROLLOVER" Feature Film SCRIPT CONSULTANT (1979)
"MARGARET MEAD; PORTRAIT OF A FRIEND" Film by Rouch and Marshall (1979)