Saturday 4th February 2006

Gavin Fernandes

Life and Death at Varanasi

A talk / slide show about this holy Indian city on the Ganges in 2001 shortly after the record breaking Khumb Mela Festival that year, where Gavin took the shot that won the TPOTY award.

Alistair Humphreys

Round the World by Bike

4 years, 46,000 miles 60 countries, 5 continents in support of "Hope and Homes for Children"

Saturday 4th March 2006

Jane Robinson

"The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands"

Mary's biographer follows the life of this spirited Jamacan traveller and heroine of the Crimean War from downtown Kingston via Panama and the Ukraine to the finest society drawing rooms in London

Neville Shulman OBE

Climbing the Equator

Neville Shulman's adventures in Ecuador, climbing its high mountains, meeting the wild and exotic creatures of its rainforests, face to face with indigenous tribes, and prehistoric creatures in the Galapagos Islands.

Saturday 1st April 2006

Jonathon Kaplan

"A surgical Sojourn in the Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan"

Surgeon Jonathon Kaplan works in remote parts of the world, under the extreme conditions of battlefields and disaster zones. His books "The Dressing Station" and "Contact Wounds" are vivid, wryly funny accounts of survival - his own as well as that of his patients - in places as diverse as Mozambique, Eritrea, Burma, Madagascar, Angola and iraq. Between hospital posts, trama-surgery teaching, writing and working as a medical advisor on TV dramas, he also travels as photographer, journalist, and documentary film -maker.

Anne Mustoe

"The Amber Route"

Cycling the Baltic, to the Adriatic through Denmark, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Italy.

Saturday 6th May 2006

Paul Harris

Crossing Cultures and the Art of Photography

Audiovisual presentation draws on the experiences of a working photographer in the field, his inspirations, attention to detail, highs and lows. In 1989 Paul completed three photo essays about British Explorers, Water and the training of Search and rescue Dogs,m all of which formed the beginning of his freelance careeer and gave insight into the various skills and tools needed for each subsequent assignement. He sees photography as a passport to a whole variety of encounters with people and place a Shaman in Mongolia, story tellers in Calcutta and bungy jumpers in Queensland; helicopters into the volcanoes of Hawaii, Iban longboats into the rainforests of Borneo and the nervous reationship with his camel, Marmaduke, in Niger's Tenere Desert.

Sam Manicon

“Into Africa”

After 3 months motor-bike experience, Sam set off to ride the length of Africa having his share of challenges, surprises and disasters “This year riding through Africa restored my faith in human nature” He continued riding for 7 years and 200,000 miles around the World.

Saturday 3rd June 2006

Patricia Baker

Iran Past and Present

Patricia, author of Bradt’s Iran guide has specialized in Islamic art for over 35 years. Her talk examines aspects of Iran perhaps not readily understood by western viewers.

Katrina Manson / James Knight

Burkino Faso

Katrina and James, Bradt guide authors [journalist/photographers] spent a year researching and reporting the country

Saturday, 1st July 2006

Members Slides

Around the world in eighty minutes.

This month we have a fast paced journey around the Globe with eight ten minute presentations from club members. Probably the best meeting of the year and your last chance to meet up before the summer. 

Globetrotters is all about members, so come along and join in.