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VIRTUAL PROGRAM: Going to Extremes: A Travel Journalist’s Tour of the Globe’s Most Adventurous Outposts

November 2, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email 24 hours before the event.**  

An award-winning adventure travel journalist for The Washington PostThe Los Angeles TimesNational Geographic Kids, and The Boston Globe, Peter Mandel hunts his stories and photos in the world’s far corners, including Antarctica, India, Egypt, Patagonia, the fjords of Norway, the mountain pathways of Japan, and the deserts of Africa. The author of ten books, Mandel will show slides of his most extreme travel experiences: surviving a coup in Ecuador, visiting a ‘city’ of penguins at the South Pole, fishing for piranha on Brazil’s Rio Negro, floating in the Goodyear Blimp, sailing on an Arctic icebreaker, camping in the African bush, and kayaking to the Statue of Liberty. He’ll deliver the scoop on how travel turns to prose on today’s magazine and newspaper pages.

This virtual event is a collaboration between several libraries. Register below:

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November 2, 2022
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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