Special Guest Lecture Series
Crossing Oceania: Fiji to Bali JANUARY 19 • 20 NIGHTS
Dr. David Keeling is the Distinguished Professor of Cultural Geography at Western Kentucky University and a recipient of the Alan Hay Award
from the Royal Geographical Society. His conversational lectures delve into topics from ancient trade routes and WWII Pacific Island battles to Papua New Guinea’s post-colonial development, Timor Leste’s independence, Indonesia’s identity, and more.
John Hay, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient for his work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), offers a big picture view of the Pacific,
from its fisheries and land tenure systems to understanding the ‘garbage patch’ and the responses to climate change. His wife, Helen Henry, author of the memoir My Kotuku of the South Seas: Living and Loving in Rarotonga, shares her cultural insights.
Singapore to Australia APRIL 1 • 14 NIGHTS
Having explored all seven continents, photographer/ filmmaker Bob Krist has been stranded on an Icelandic glacier, charged by bulls in India, and
knighted during a Trinidad voodoo ceremony. His lectures range from the informative— Bali’s unique culture; to the engaging—the misadventures of a National Geographic photographer, and how to travel authentically during the age of Instagram.
Engaging and conversational, astrologer and internationally acclaimed author Leslie McGuirk is known for her holistic interdisciplinary
approach to mental and spiritual growth. Her popular TED talk on astrology as human design (not fortune-telling) makes her a sought-after corporate speaker and a frequent presenter at Mexico’s Rancho La Puerta, a #1 Travel + Leisure international destination spa.
Immersive Indonesia:
Crossing Melanesia: Australia to Fiji
APRIL 15 • 16 NIGHTS
National Geographic photographer/filmmaker Jad Davenport has been on assignment in more than 160 countries, from covering Middle East
conflicts to studying Canadian Arctic polar bears. A true explorer, he’ll speak of his quests to find Eroni Kumana, the Solomon Islander who saved castaway JFK, and the inspiration of James Michener’s legendary Bali Hai… was it Bora Bora, Fiji, Vanuatu?
Adventure writer Peter Heller is the New York Times best-selling author of Te Guide and Te River, among others, and his non-fiction books
range from surfing to kayaking Tibet’s Tsangpo Gorge. With the storytelling wit of an award- winning writer, his lectures engage with topics ranging from surviving a career as an adventure journalist to why we go into the wild, as well as talks on several of his novels.
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