National Geographic has a excellent little
interactive site about emerging explorers. I posted about
this a long while back, but that was when there wasn’t too much there. A couple of nice print pieces, but not the vivid
interactive that is there now. There are text articles/interviews with the explorers as well as photos and some audio.
Among the folks mentioned here, I want to point out two who I think are doing really cool work. First, Kira Salak is a writer whose career I’ve been
following for a while. I’ve read her stories in National Geographic Adventure and other Outdoor Magazines for some
time. Her story on Timbuktu
aways back was superb. And I love the fact she was inspired by Mungo Park, a little known explorer who lent his name
(posthumously ;-)) to one of the best of the early travel magazines, and was a character in one of my favorite T.
Coraghessan Boyle books…Water Music, I think it was. The other explorere wothy of mention…actually, they all are
worthy of mention….is Jenny Daltry, who has
made saving the lesser-known, shall we call them uncharismatic megafauna, her life’s goal.
These are just
two of a few who have been selected by the good folks at Nat Geo who deserve our attention.