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Saturday, October 14 • 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Throughout the Wide World: Traveling Writers Reveal Encounters with People, Places, and Cultures

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Through their explorations, these writers bring back lessons that are profoundly moving and universal, and teach us how to be better citizens of the world.

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avatar for Faith Adiele

Faith Adiele

Chair, Writing & Literature, California College of the Arts
Faith Adiele writes a travel column for Detour/The Miami Herald, and her books include The Nigerian Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems and Meeting Faith, a memoir about becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun that won the PEN Open Book Award. Her media credits include... Read More →
avatar for Christina Ammon

Christina Ammon

Christina Ammon has penned stories for BBC, Orion Magazine, Hemispheres, The San Francisco Chronicle, Conde Nast and numerous travel anthologies, including the 2015 Best Travel Writing (Travelers' Tales) and the Irresponsible Traveler: Tales of Scrapes and Narrow Escapes (Bradt Guides... Read More →
avatar for Tania Amochaev

Tania Amochaev

Tania Romanov Amochaev was born in Belgrade, Serbia of two displaced émigrés—a White Russian father and a Croatian mother—and spent her childhood in San Sabba, a refugee camp in Trieste.  She is the author of tales of travel to lands as diverse as Russia, India, Japan... Read More →
avatar for James Dorsey

James Dorsey

James Michael Dorsey is an award winning author, and explorer, who has traveled in 48 countries to visit remote cultures before they vanish. He has written for LONELY PLANET, BBC TRAVEL, BBC WILDLIFE, GEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS, CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL, and is a frequent contributor... Read More →
avatar for Larry Habegger

Larry Habegger

Executive Editor, Travelers' Tales
Larry Habegger is a writer and editor who has been covering the world since his international travels began in the 1970s. As a freelance writer for more than three decades, his work has appeared in many major newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune... Read More →
avatar for Bill Zarchy

Bill Zarchy

Bill Zarchy is a writer, teacher, and recently retired director of photography who has shot film and video projects in 30 countries and 40 states. His first book, Showdown at Shinagawa: Tales of Filming from Bombay to Brazil, chronicles his work and travels around the world. Bill's... Read More →


Saturday October 14, 2017 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Haus Coffee 3086 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110