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Travel Channel’s Kinga Philipps chats with Dr. Alvin

Kinga Philipps Click Here To Listen Kinga Philipps is an experienced host, producer and journalist. As an avid adventure traveler, Kinga goes the extra mile to explore National Parks through fun activities beyond a park’s carefully marked and manicured trails. Watch her go kite surfing, bungee jumping from 200-foot trees and more while surrounded by the majestic, natural beauty of America’s great outdoors in the Travel Channel web series. You can also catch The Wild Side with Kinga Philipps on Travel Channel. She’s a guest commentator on Travel Channel’s Park Secrets, VH1’s 100 Greatest and AOL Travel. Kinga is perhaps best known as the host of the hit series SyFy's Legend Quest and National Geographic's [...]

By |May 22nd, 2014|Travel|Comments Off on Travel Channel’s Kinga Philipps chats with Dr. Alvin
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Sextant: A Young Man’s Daring Sea Vogage And The Men Who Mapped The World’s Oceans By David Barrie chats with Dr. Alvin

David Barrie Click Here To Listen Live From The U.K. In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and to the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world. Barrie takes readers straight to the helm of some of history's most important expeditions, interweaving these heroic tales with the account of his own transatlantic passage as a young man. Among the many inspiring stories are those of the legendary Captain Cook and the great French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, whose disappearance has long [...]

By |May 19th, 2014|History, Technology, Travel|Comments Off on Sextant: A Young Man’s Daring Sea Vogage And The Men Who Mapped The World’s Oceans By David Barrie chats with Dr. Alvin
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A Man Came Out Of A Door In The Mountain By Adrianne Harun chats with Dr. Alvin

Adrianne Harun Click Here To Listen In this mysterious and chilling novel, girls, mostly Native, are vanishing from the sides of a notorious highway in the isolated Pacific Northwest. Leo Kreutzer and his friends are barely touched by these disappearances—until a series of enigmatic strangers arrive in their remote mountain town, beguiling and bewitching them. It seems as if the devil himself has appeared among them. The intoxicatingly lush debut novel by the acclaimed author of The King of Limbo, A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain is an unsettling portrait of life in a dead-end town, as seductive and beautifully written as the devil’s dark arts are wielded

By |May 2nd, 2014|Crime, Fiction, Travel|Comments Off on A Man Came Out Of A Door In The Mountain By Adrianne Harun chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Spicer Diaries by Michael Spicer

Michael Spicer Click Here To Listen Live From England Lord Michael Spicer has enjoyed a varied and remarkable political career by anyone's standards. Now, in this revealing, insightful, and engaging book, Lord Spicer shares never-before-heard stories of his time in British politics. During three and a half decades as a Conservative Member of Parliament, Spicer has held a plethora of essential political roles both within the party and in government, including Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party and chair of the highly influential 1922 committee. As an influential member of the Tory party, Lord Spicer worked closely with both Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron, among other leaders in British politics, including Tony Blair and John Major, and his diary takes readers behind [...]

By |April 19th, 2014|Biography, Politics, Travel|Comments Off on The Spicer Diaries by Michael Spicer
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NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette by Nathan Pyle

Nathan Pyle Live From New York City. Living in New York City for five years as a transplant from Ohio, illustrator and T-shirt designer Nathan Pyle was fascinated by the unique habits and unspoken customs New Yorkers follow to make life bearable in a city with 8 million people (and seemingly twice the number of tourists). Nathan decided to draw his favorite tips and etiquette lessons and post them on the internet, where his 12 original panels went viral immediately and became the basis for this hilarious illustrated book (check out the fully animated ebook, too!). In NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette, Pyle reveals the secrets and unwritten rules for living in and visiting New [...]

By |April 18th, 2014|Cooking / Food, Travel|Comments Off on NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette by Nathan Pyle
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