Jerzy Adamuszek

Jerzy Adamuszek (born 1955 in Klucze, Poland) is a geographer, adventurer and writer. He has lived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada since 1980.
Biography.
Early life and education.
Adamuszek spent his childhood in Chechlo (near Olkusz), a small village bordering Pustynia Bledowska which is part of Jura Krakowsko-Czestochowska. As a child, he spent much of his time poring over atlases, adventure books, and imagining himself in foreign lands. His youthful pastimes were science, sports, and painting. After the completion of Technical School of Gardening in Bielsko-Biala in 1974, he moved to Kraków to study Geography at the Jagiellonian University. He received his master's degree in 1980.
Career.
From this flurry of concentrated activity emerged a plan to undertake unique expeditions, mainly based on the sports at which he excelled. Working at a wide variety of jobs, as a land surveyor in Western Canada, making maps and city plans and delivering cars throughout the US and Canada, he was able at the same time to discover the new continent where he now lived.
He began, and is organizing, two series of presentations in the Polish Consulate in Montreal.