![]() ![]() It’s a good chunk of the reason why I ended up writing so much for rock-n-roll magazines. ![]() What is your biggest challenge in the research and writing process? But, boy-oh-boy, let me tell-ya, I sure remember the rush that accompanied a phone call from a book editor wanting to buy my first book.Īs a traveler and fact/story gatherer, what is your biggest challenge on the road?īeing a big, dopey white male and unloading all the freight that comes with being a big, dopey white male. To me, a break somehow involves luck, and all I recall is a slog involving lots of work and dues-paying. What do you consider your first “break” as a writer? My first paying gigs were for newspapers published by labor unions. Like most hacks, I began writing in college. Later, after college, I shipped out aboard freighters and sailboats. The relationship, I’m told, began at age three months, when I went on my first voyage, stowed in a picnic basket tied to a sailboat mast, my Dad at the helm. ![]() They all draw out the poisons and focus attention on important stuff: wind, sky, nature’s bounty. His findings have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, and in his three books: Down at the Docks Drums Along the Congo: On the Trail of Mokele-Mbembe, the Last Living Dinosaur and The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck: A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra. His work examines the deep shadows cast by traditions gone missing, or about to go missing. ![]()
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