Recently in 2006: The Literature of Adventure, Travel, and Discovery Category
Pico Iyer delivered the annual John Hersey Memorial Address that kicked off the 2006 Seminar on The Literature of Travel, Adventure and Discovery. The talk, entitled "A New Kind of Travel for a New Kind of World: Stillness and Movement on a Fast-Turning Globe" was a dazzling, head-spinning example of Iyer's trademark verbal pyrotechnics.
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