MEET GLOBAL LUMINARIES

08-05-2010

 MEET GLOBAL LUMINARIES ABOARD LINDBLAD EXPEDITIONS’ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER

 

Travel With a Who's Who of Fascinating Travel Companions

From The Top Tiers of World Affairs, Journalism and Exploration

 

NEW YORK, N.Y. August 2010 – Lindblad Expeditions has announced their Global Luminaries program for 2010/2011.  Renowned for their staff’s expertise in the regions they explore, Global Luminaries will add an extra layer of interest and insight to their expeditions with special guests drawn from the top tiers of world affairs, broadcast journalism, and exploration and research.  

The Global Luminaries title refers to what these remarkable individuals contribute to the expedition community at large - a relevant global perspective.   The unique program is available exclusively aboard National Geographic Explorer and affords guests the opportunity to travel and explore with world-class personalities, as fellow guests, in the intimate and conversational environment  of an expedition - and not just in the context of a presentation or talk from the podium. 

Some of the upcoming luminaries who will be traveling this season include (a complete list can be found at http://www.expeditions.com/luminaires):

WORLD AFFAIRS:

Mary Robinson:  First woman President of Ireland. Formerly the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.   

·         British & Irish Isles, May 16, 2011

 

Gro Brundtland: Former Prime Minister of Norway.  UN Special Envoy on Climate Change.

·         The Baltics, August 28, 2011   

 

Mikhail Gorbachev:  Former President of the Soviet Union, Nobel Peace Laureate, Cold War reformer and 20th-century visionary. President Gorbachev will meet with Lindblad guests in St. Petersburg. 

·         The Baltics – Aug. 28 & Sept. 5, 2011

 

Lech Walesa:  From electrician to Labor Leader to Nobel Prize winner to the elected President of Poland, he is fascinating and will visit with us in Gdarisk.

·         The Baltics – Aug. 28 & Sept. 5, 2011

 

JOURNALISM:

Elizabeth Kolbert: Journalist, Staff Writer for The New Yorker and Author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change.

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