Benedict Allen on his global haphazard adventures

http://www.intelligencesquared.com/ In this talk, Benedict Allen, the original television adventurer, recounts his remarkable solo expeditions across some of the world's most unchartered territories. With no GPS or radio, and replacing Land Rovers and film crew with work-shy camels and a hefty hand-held video camera, Allen's tales of 'third-rate' assassins and hostile tribesmen are by turns horrifying and hilarious.

Driven by a desire to deconstruct misconceptions of the "other", he reminds us that exploration is not about leaving one's mark somewhere, but about "letting that place leave its mark on you."

This talk is taken from our event, 'The Great Explorers' (October, 2010).

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