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Steven R. Schwankert

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Steven Schwankert is an award-winning writer and editor with more than 20 years of experience in Greater China, focusing on exploration, technology, media, and culture. His book, "Poseidon: China's Secret Salvage of Britain's Lost Submarine" was published in 2013 by Hong Kong University Press. "Beijing & Shanghai," a guidebook he co-wrote for Hong Kong's Odyssey Publications, is now in its third edition.

Steven is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a fellow and East and South Asia Chapter Chair of The Explorers Club, and founded SinoScuba, Beijing's first professional scuba diving operator. In 2007, he led the first-ever scientific expedition to dive Mongolia's Lake Khovsgol, where he and his team found two wooden shipwrecks from th
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Audio title coming soon!

I am thrilled to be working on a new audio-only (or audio-first) project about one of the greatest friendships and rivalries in Olympic history. Unhelpful hint: the working title is "Gold and Silver." Coming later this year from Camphor Press. #olympics #audiobooks
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