About

George Meegan is an adventurer, lecturer and world traveler.  He holds the

most official world’s records (8) of any European (including the Longest

Unbroken March of All Time) earned from his epic walk from Tierra Del

Fuego, South America to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska; 19,019 miles in 2,425 days from

1977 to 1983. Later he completed his walk to Barrow in 2000.

 

He lives in both England and Japan with his wife, Yoshiko. He has a daughter, Ayumi, and a son, Geoffrey.

He has served as a seaman in the British Merchant Marine and is a

Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. Currently, Meegan is an associate professor at

the Japanese National Maritime University, Kobe, Japan.

 

The story of this epic transverse of the Americas on foot is chronicled in

his book, The Longest Walk.*  This is George Meegan’s very personal account

of the challenges, the hardships, and the vast sweep of peoples he

encountered as he walked across the Americas.

 

Interestingly, no human has ever transversed the Americas by foot, nor by

vehicle or even by aircraft.  By foot, Meegan’s feat is unequaled.  His

book is in the Library of Congress, and pictured in the Guinness Book of

Records in Japan, U.K. and the U.S.A.; it has been excerpted as an elective

text for Japanese University study; it has been condensed and included in a

national text book of historic adventure persons now being distributed

throughout most middle schools in the Japanese archipelago; it has been

converted into an audio version distributed nationwide in the U.S. and

other English speaking countries. McGraw Hill publishers has seen fit to

include a quote of Meegan’s regarding weather in Central America in a

social studies textbook used in U.S. middle schools.

 

His feat has earned him national and international recognition. George was

the ‘most unknown’ ever to be in a four page Bio section in People magazine

and then later in a three page update. He has appeared on the NBC Today

show three times, CBS Morning News and also for a two hour radio interview

on the Larry King Live. He has lectured at the New York Explorer’s Club to

a standing room audience, and made numerous other lecture appearances

world-wide since his book was published.

 

* The Longest Walk was originally published by Paragon Press in 1988. It has since gone out

of print. A limited quantity of the original softbound version is still available and may

be purchased in person or through Meegan’s current publisher, Eagle River Type and

Graphics in Eagle River, Alaska. The book may be reviewed along with purchasing details on

the web site: www.northbooks.com or by calling (907) 696-8973.