Tag: Travel Writer Videos
Video: Lavinia Spalding’s TEDx Talk on Travel Writing
by Jim Benning | 05.01.12 | 12:00 PM ET
The editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011 recently spoke at the TEDx conference in Park City, Utah, delivering an eloquent argument for the power of travel stories to reveal our shared humanity.
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Yahoo! BuzzVideo: Interview with Author Elizabeth Gilbert
by Jim Benning | 02.15.12 | 12:10 PM ET
A thoughtful 20-minute interview with the “Eat, Pray, Love” author covering MFA programs and her novel-in-progress, which she refers to at one point as “another travel book.”
Video: Matt Gross on ‘Big Think’
by World Hum | 05.14.10 | 11:28 AM ET
The New York Times' Frugal Traveler and World Hum contributor shares his thoughts on travel and home.
Video: Rolf Potts on Travel Writing and ‘Picture Postcard Expectations’
by World Hum | 11.18.09 | 1:13 PM ET
The World Hum contributor in conversation with BootsnAll
Tim Cahill on Writing Literate Adventure Stories
by World Hum | 11.10.09 | 10:08 AM ET
"You don't need Superman to do an adventure story"
Paul Theroux Gives Advice to Aspiring Writers
by World Hum | 11.05.09 | 2:43 PM ET
"Leave home, travel alone, and stay on the ground"
Pico Iyer on the ‘Romance of Civilizations’
by World Hum | 07.20.09 | 11:15 AM ET
Pico Iyer at the 2007 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival.
Video: Alison Stein Wellner: The Heat Seeker
by World Hum | 05.11.09 | 11:16 AM ET
Alison Stein Wellner traveled around the world to eat the hottest food she could handle, a quest she chronicled for World Hum
World Hum’s Eighth Anniversary
by World Hum | 04.27.09 | 12:30 PM ET
Michael Yessis and Jim Benning on eight years of publishing travel stories online.
Video: Jeffrey Tayler on His New Book, ‘Murderers in Mausoleums’
by World Hum | 02.26.09 | 5:27 PM ET
Jeffrey Tayler discusses traveling from Moscow to Beijing, "drink by drink."
Video: Jeffrey Tayler on Why He Started Traveling
by World Hum | 02.26.09 | 11:01 AM ET
Jeffrey Tayler pedaled more than 1,000 miles down the Grand Trunk Road in India, a journey he chronicled for World Hum.
Video: Jeffrey Tayler: ‘I Was Getting in Over My Head’
by World Hum | 02.25.09 | 10:34 AM ET
Jeffrey Tayler pedaled more than 1,000 miles down the Grand Trunk Road in India, a journey he chronicled for World Hum.
Video: Jeffrey Tayler on Cycling Across India
by World Hum | 02.23.09 | 10:42 AM ET
Jeffrey Tayler pedaled more than 1,000 miles down the Grand Trunk Road in India, a journey he chronicled for World Hum.
Pico Iyer in Japan
by World Hum | 02.02.09 | 8:14 AM ET
Kurt Andersen spoke with the writer about Buddhism and his life as an "outside man"
Inside World Hum 3.0
by World Hum | 12.11.08 | 4:39 PM ET
World Hum cofounders Jim Benning and Michael Yessis, and editor Valerie Conners, discuss the site's new look.
World Hum’s Restless Legs Reading
by World Hum | 12.11.08 | 4:21 PM ET
World Hum teamed up with Restless Legs Reading Series host and World Hum contributor David Farley in New York City for a night of readings for the wanderlust stricken.
Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Jon Krakauer on Charlie Rose/YouTube
by Jim Benning | 09.13.07 | 2:55 PM ET
Photo of Paul Theroux via YouTube video. A slew of interviews from the "Charlie Rose" show archives were recently added to YouTube, including, I learned from a bit of poking around, a number of travel writers' appearances. Among the highlights, posted below: Paul Theroux -- wearing a lovely salmon turtleneck -- discusses The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean in 1995; Jon Krakauer talks up "Into the Wild" in 1996; Bill Bryson promotes "A Walk in the Woods" in 1998; and Peter Mayle holds forth on "Encore Provence."
Rolf Potts at Authors@Google on Video
by Jim Benning | 08.23.07 | 3:47 PM ET
World Hum columnist Rolf Potts recently spoke for an hour at Google's New York office about travel and his book Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. He fielded audience questions about anti-Americanism abroad, dangers facing women travelers and the places he's yet to visit. Rolf's never been to Madagascar. Who knew? The talk was captured on video and posted on YouTube.
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