Explorer
As an explorer, Elder embarked on lengthy expeditions to remote areas of Papua New Guinea, Namibia, the Amazon, the Congo, the Arctic, Madagascar, and many other countries. He founded the Canadian Chapter of the Explorers Club in 1979.
He is responsible for the discovery of one of the main pygmy tribes that proved cannibalism was still being practiced.
He wrote 'This Thing of Darkness', a book about the Amazon with the foreword written by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
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