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Going to Extremes (Zoom)

Travel Journalist's Tour of the Most Adventurous Outposts

2024-09-30 18:30:00 2024-09-30 20:00:00 America/Chicago Going to Extremes (Zoom) Join award-winning travel journalist Peter Mandel in revisiting his most extreme travel experiences. He'll deliver the scoop on how travel turns to prose on today's magazine and newspaper pages. Wilmette Public Library - Zoom Adult/Teen

Monday, September 30
6:30pm - 8:00pm

Wilmette Public Library

Zoom Adult/Teen

Join award-winning travel journalist Peter Mandel in revisiting his most extreme travel experiences. He'll deliver the scoop on how travel turns to prose on today's magazine and newspaper pages.

An award-winning adventure travel journalist for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, National 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 program will not be recorded.

Armchair Travels is generously funded with a gift from the Rutherford Family Trust.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Virtual | Presentation |

TAGS: | Armchair Travels |

Wilmette Public Library

Phone: 847-256-5025

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From the south: Go north on Green Bay Road. Turn left on Wilmette Ave. Turn right on Park Ave. Library is located on the corner of Wilmette Ave. and Park Ave. Parking lot is on the north side of the building. 

From the north: Go south on Green Bay Road. Turn right on Wilmette Ave. Turn right on Park Ave. Library is located on the corner of Wilmette Ave. and Park Ave. Parking lot is on the north side of the building.

From I-94 (Edens Expressway):from the South - exit at Lake Ave. East. Go east on Lake Ave. a little over 2 miles. Turn right on Park Ave. • from the North - exit at Rt. 41/Skokie Blvd. Turn left (east) on Lake Ave. Go east on Lake Ave. a little over 2 miles. Turn right on Park Ave. 


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