Adventure Collection’s Hot Trips for 2010

With global economic recovery slowly but surely underway, feedback from Adventure Collection member companiess shows that more and more travelers are requesting catalogs and itineraries and perusing trip web pages. To further whet this wanderlust, I asked AC members to recommend one particularly hot trip for 2010 – a journey that especially impassions them. Here are their recommendations. [...]

Cheetah Chase Captures Adventure Collection Photo Contest

The second winner of the Adventure Collection’s Adventures of a Lifetime photo competition has been selected! Kathleen Rice’s photo of a cheetah chasing a Thomson’s gazelle in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve was chosen from among more than 100 entries as our August winner. Rice’s grand prize is a trip for two to view polar bears [...]

John Rasmus: Adventures in Storytelling

 A conversation with the Editor in Chief of National Geographic Adventure magazine
 
 
DG: What initially drew you to the job of editing an adventure publication?
JR: I was a young city magazine editor back in the late ’70s, enamored of the New Journalism and magazines like Rolling Stone and New York, but I loved the kinds of [...]

An Intimate and Expansive Appreciation of Bhutan

Matthieu Ricard’s extraordinary new photography and text book, Bhutan: The Land of Serenity, presents a profoundly transporting portrait of the land, culture, and people of this Himalayan kingdom.
Bhutan has exerted a spell on me over the past three years. Though I’d been aware of the country for almost two decades, somehow recently the place had [...]

Living Africa

Africa is a favorite subject for coffee table tomes, but I have rarely come across as compelling a package of photographs and essays as Living Africa, a new book by Steve Bloom.
In more than 200 photographs, South African-born Bloom showcases a mind-expanding spectrum of African landscape, wildlife, and humanity. He has a gift for making [...]