Bookmarks #1

Your digital bookshelf of travel-related essays, videos and interviews

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Dear NE-One

I have become a serial bookmarker. When I stumble on something that draws me in – an interview, a video, an essay that won’t leave my mind – I copy the link, email it to myself, then flag that email blue. For safe-keeping, I guess. To mull over and come back to someday. That blue folder in my inbox is now overflowing so, I thought, why not share a few favourites with you?

Read

• Quest for the Full Moon Walrus –

  Acacia Johnson
  heads off on a 1,000-mile bush plane journey for an elusive photographic dream

• Iran’s Daughters of the Sea

• Toppling Giants – ‘every other frightening encounter I had had with wild animals up to that point paled in comparison to this one’. An essay by

  Kendall Lamb

• Miles to Go Before We Sleep –

  David Begler
  reflects on how an annual wilderness expedition with close college friends has evolved over 36 years

• Has Tourism Been Good or Bad for the World? – thoughts from

  Michael Jensen
  and
  Brent Hartinger

• The Beauty of Elsewhere, the Beauty of Home – an essay by

  Gregory Garretson
  on learning to find beauty wherever you are

• Stoop Coffee – how a simple idea transformed

  Patty Smith
  ’s neighbourhood

Scroll

• The 20 best literary hotels in the world

• Quotes from iconic authors about how travel can transform our perspective

• Lady Sarashina – the woman who became one of the world’s first travel writers

• ‘The book that changed my perspective’, by National Geographic ‘honourees’

• The women changing the way we travel

Watch

• Meet Srishti Bakshi, who walked across India for freedom

• Between the Mountains and the Sky – Maggie Doyne’s journey from carefree New Jersey teen to mother figure to over 50 Nepali children

• Climbing Kilimanjaro – adventurer Eva zu Beck joins a team of female high-altitude porters on Africa’s highest mountain

Listen

• A Woman Walks Kabul – author Taran Khan talks with travel writer Sophy Roberts about her book, Shadow City

• Guardians of the River – the guardians of the Okavango water ecosystem

• Pioneering diver Jill Heinerth on exploring the caves of the world’s biggest iceberg – a BBC podcast

• Rudyard Kipling’s poem If, read by Sir Michael Caine

As this lands in your inbox, I’ll be setting off on a swamp tour somewhere on the north-western coast of Sumatra. It’s been a busy – and interesting – six weeks on the road as Mark and I research chapters for Lonely Planet’s upcoming Indonesia guidebook. I’ve been sharing images and videos with On the Road subscribers; if you’re a paying subscriber and would like to join that WhatsApp group, please drop me a line and I’ll send you the link.

Until next time
Narina x