Travel Interviews
Interview With Greg Mortenson: One Traveler Changing Lives
by David Frey | 06.04.10 | 10:46 AM ET
David Frey asks the bestselling author about the "Three Cups of Tea" approach to travel and life
Interview With Amanda Pressner: A Year of Getting Lost
by Michael Yessis | 05.27.10 | 12:26 PM ET
Michael Yessis talks to one of the authors of "The Lost Girls" about long-term travel and its unforeseen rewards
Interview With Andrew Potter: Travel and the Search for Authenticity
by Michael Yessis | 05.13.10 | 12:28 PM ET
Michael Yessis asks the author of "The Authenticity Hoax" if authentic travel experiences exist -- and about the cost of our search for them
Interview With Bela Fleck: A Banjo Virtuoso in Africa
by David Frey | 04.28.10 | 9:15 AM ET
David Frey asks the acclaimed musician about a new documentary and album
Interview with Jeremy Weate: Off the Map in Nigeria
by Frank Bures | 04.21.10 | 11:56 AM ET
Frank Bures talks to the guidebook author about the challenges and rewards of travel in Nigeria
Interview with Seth Stevenson: ‘Grounded’
by Frank Bures | 04.08.10 | 10:18 AM ET
The author's new book chronicles his surface journey around the world. Frank Bures asks him about it -- and why he thinks air travel isn't really travel.
Interview with Stephanie Elizondo Griest: ‘The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010’
by Eva Holland | 03.31.10 | 7:23 AM ET
Eva Holland talks with the editor of a new anthology
Interview With Carl Hoffman: Riding ‘The Lunatic Express’
by Jim Benning | 03.16.10 | 10:36 AM ET
Jim Benning asks the author about the joys and challenges of traveling in steerage
Interview With Ted Conover: Traveling ‘The Routes of Man’
by Frank Bures | 03.02.10 | 11:39 AM ET
Frank Bures asks the author about the role of roads in the world -- from Ladakh and the Peruvian Andes to the West Bank
Interview With Peter Hessler: Behind the Wheel in China
by Frank Bures | 02.18.10 | 10:23 AM ET
Frank Bures asks the New Yorker writer about his new book, "Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory"
Interview With Marco Werman: Traveling in Search of the World’s Music
by Jim Benning | 01.25.10 | 10:33 AM ET
Jim Benning asks the public broadcasting host about a new show and his love of music from around the globe
Interview with Susan Van Allen: ‘100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go’
by Eva Holland | 01.11.10 | 10:39 AM ET
Eva Holland asks the author why female travelers (and travel writers) are so drawn to Italy
Interview with Alain de Botton: ‘A Week at the Airport’
by Frank Bures | 01.06.10 | 11:33 AM ET
Frank Bures asks Heathrow's first writer-in-residence about non-places, taking time to arrive and what airports tell us about ourselves
Interview With Loreena McKennitt: Musical Travel Writing
by Jim Benning | 12.16.09 | 11:25 AM ET
Jim Benning asks the singer-songwriter about her most powerful travel experiences
Interview with Jason Reitman and Walter Kirn: ‘Up in the Air’
by Michael Yessis | 12.11.09 | 10:26 AM ET
Michael Yessis asks the men behind the book and its movie adaptation about Airworld