London Meetings.
The London Meetings
programme from September 2008 to July 2009 .
Saturday September 6th 2008
Katie Fahrland
Off to Bamako for the Festival au Segou, West African Music and Arts
Our 2007/8 travel prize winner reports back on her journey of a lifetime.
Fran Sandham
Traversa, a solo walk across Africa
Fran Sandham was an editor at Rough Guides for several years, and worked as a bookseller and in the voluntary sector before that. He has travelled in over forty countries. He lives in Brighton and London.
For more info see: http://www.traversa.co.uk/
Saturday 4th October 2008
Justin Marozzi
Travels with Herodotus. historical adventures with the father of history
Justin Marozzi is a writer and journalist who has traveled extensively throughout the Muslim world.
For more info see: http://www.harpercollins.com.au/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0007116128&tc=bd
Jonny Bealby
The Silk Route
Whilst in Islamabad investigating the possibilities of setting up an adventure travel company, Jonny Bealby met the woman of his dreams. Not only that, but Rachel was the person with whom he could live out his dream - to travel the Old Silk Road on horseback. On his return to Pakistan that Christmas, however, Jonny was faced with those dreadful words: 'I've met somebody else...' With his heart fixed on this journey, as well as the possibility of a TV deal, Jonny set out to find a Quixotic stranger as his companion. In no time he found Sarah - attractive, warm and funny - the perfect candidate for a possible romance. Unfortunately, though, during their search for the Heavenly Horses that would carry them across the Mountains of Heaven, their fledgling friendship was beset by problems of communication, inexperience and the difficulty of adapting to radically different cultures and surroundings.
For more info see: http://www.wildfrontiers.co.uk/wildfrontiers/jbbooks.jsf
Saturday 1st November 2008
Martin Featherstone
Northern India - Rajahstan to Varanassi
Martin takes us on a journey to india visiting the Elephant Festival in
Rajahstan, bodies burning on the Varanassi ghats,
inside the Rat Temple ,the Indo-Pakistan border
ceremony and also the sex temples of
Kujaharo
Jennifer Barclay
How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi.
Jennifer Barclay writes articles on Korean culture for www.londonkoreanlinks.net and has written on Korea for The Korea Herald, Canada's Globe and Mail and the Travelers Tales (US) anthology A Woman's Asia. She has also written on travel and culture for The Toronto Star and Greek News, and contributed to Lonely Planet: Korea. Her short travel stories 'Comfort Me With Kimchi' and 'Discovering the Old World in Andalucia' were forwarded to the finals of the Canadian Literary Awards in 2001. She has recently published her first book, Meeting Mr Kim, or How I learned to Love Kimichi (August 2008), about the three months she spent travelling around South Korea.
The talk by Paul Mungeam has had to be posponed
Paul Mungeam
Stories from ten years of Adventure and Travel
Paul Mungeam. (Known as Mungo in the TV industry) was born in Tonbridge Kent in 1971. He studied fine art in Sydney for 3 years and, with no formal media training, held a 'second' camera for a friend at a society wedding. The rest, they say is history. His home is in Wandsworth. London. Over the last ten years he has proved that by daring to take hold of opportunities that arise, you can become a considerable achiever. He has filmed in approximately 50 countries and on every continent. With a friend he has just launched a new company called Expedition Media (expeditionmedia.co.uk expeditionmedia.co.uk).
For more info see: http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails-Mungo+the+Cameraman+-9780955565007.html&tab=3
Saturday 6th December 2008
This meeting is in 17 days time.
Amar Grover
A Journey through Southern Morocco
Taking in ruined palaces, spectacular scenery and the fortified granaries of the Berbers.
John Gimlette
Panther Soup, a European Journey in War and Peace
A chance encounter with an American veteran leads John Gimlette, the award-winning travel writer, on an astonishing journey which shows just how Europe has changed since the Second World War.
Their contemporary odyssey passes through some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, and through cities that have risen from cinders. Panther Soup is the story of that journey, a tale as bleak and absurd as war itself yet full of transformation, rich variety and interest when dealing with the present day.
For more info see: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0091921384
Future Meetings: Speakers and dates to be confirmed.
- Saturday, 3 January 2009
- Saturday, 7 February 2009
- Saturday, 7 March 2009
- Saturday, 4 April 2009
- Saturday, 9 May 2009 **Saturday, 2 May 2009 is BH weekend**
- Saturday, 6 June 2009
- Saturday, 4 July 2009
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