Episode 2: Traveling the Earth Gently
Host on Episode 2 | |
 | Paul Holdengräber is the cultural wunderkind whose noted claim to fame as the Director of Public Programs at the prestigious New York Public Library is making the library an after-dark hot spot for many New Yorkers. Previously, Holdengräber was the founder and director of the Institute for Art and Cultures at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
Guests on Episode 2 | |
 | Simon Winchester has reported from almost everywhere during an award-winning 20-year career as a foreign correspondent for The Guardian. As a journalist Winchester witnessed the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, and was held captive by Argentinean forces in the Falkland Islands. Winchester has authored eight books including The Map that Changed the World, Krakatoa, and A Crack in the Edge of the World. |
 | Jan Morris is the Glyndwr Award (for outstanding contribution to the arts of Wales) winning travel journalist who is considered by many to be the most influential and famous travel writer of our generation. Morris first began covering travel in1953 when she accompanied the first successful ascent of Mount Everest by the British led expedition of Hillary and Tenzing, and then sent a coded message to The Times reporting about it. Since then Morris has authored over 30 books, numerous essays, and has been the subject of a BBC Biography. |
 | Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer. In 1989 he wrote The End of Nature, the first book for a general readership on global warming. To date the book has been printed in more than 20 languages. McKibben also writes about alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. |
 | Christopher Shaw is an environmental journalist, professor of writing at Middlebury College, and author of Sacred Monkey River. Shaw has a long history of environmental journalism, previous to his professorship, Shaw edited the magazine the Adirondack life, which garnered many National awards for the depth of its editorial content. Shaw is currently a staff member of the Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism. |
 | Werner Herzog is a film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director. Herzog has directed and created over 40 films, published more than a dozen books and directed as many operas. Among his films are the Sundance Award-winning documentary film Grizzly Man, and Fitzcarraldo, which garnered Herzog the Best Director Award from The Cannes Film Festival. He wrote a book about walking called Of Walking In Ice: Munich – Paris November 23 – December 14, 1974 |
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