A nationally known adventure travel journalist for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and The Los Angeles Times, 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.
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 — and talk about adventure travel writing in today's media.
Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, HarperCollins, and Henry Holt have published Mandel's ten books for young readers. One of his Boston Globe articles won the 2005 Lowell Thomas gold medal from the Society of American Travel Writers for adventure travel article of the year. Other articles for The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun won the Lowell Thomas Awards in 2003, 2006, and 2007.
Please note that this program is recommended for school-aged children and up.
Peter Mandel will join us virtually via Zoom. Participants can watch from home or at the library. Register below for in-person or online.
This is a hybrid event - you can either attend in person at the library or watch via Zoom. When registering for the program, make sure to select your preferred option from the drop down at the bottom of the form.