1. Sasha Siemel spoke seven languages and boasted of having experienced more adventure in a single year than most men had witnessed in a lifetime.
11 Facts About Sasha Siemel
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Sasha Siemel is known among sportsmen, claiming to have successfully hunted more than 300 jaguars in the Mato Grosso jungles of Brazil.
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Sasha Siemel was born in Riga, Latvia, and moved to the United States in 1907 at the age of 17.
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In 1914, Sasha Siemel traveled to the jungles of Brazil, where he worked as a gunsmith and mechanic in the diamond-mining camps of the Mato Grosso.
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In 1937, while lecturing in Philadelphia, Sasha Siemel met Edith Bray, a young photographer, who later joined him in the Pantanal.
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Sasha Siemel led a quiet life, lecturing and continuing to lead expeditions to South America.
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Sasha Siemel now spoke six languages: Latvian, Russian, German, English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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Sasha Siemel was interviewed by journalist Charles Collingwood for the Adventure series produced by the American Museum of Natural History, and broadcast on the CBS television network in 1953.
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Sasha Siemel's adventure is told in the 1965 book Sashino.
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Sasha Siemel died in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1970 at the age of 80.
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Sasha Siemel, who has lectured at the AMNH, shows films of various forms of wildlife around his home in Matto Grosso, Brazil, and lets the viewers see his hunting activities: capturing a cub in the jungle and spearing a jaguar.