| Paul
Theroux on Lawrence Millman:
"He is that rare traveler—a person with guts
and a sense of humor. He is also a wonderful writer."
Lawrence
Millman was a speaker for our Adventure
Travel Lecture Series on his book, Lost
in the Arctic.
Lawrence Millman has written for
Smithsonian, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated,
Islands, Summit and many other magazines. His books
include Our Like Will
Not Be There Again, Hero
Jesse, A Kayak
Full of Ghosts, and Last
Places. Two collections of Mr. Millman's travel
essays have been published, entitled An
Evening Among Headhuntersand Other Reports From Roads
Less Traveled.
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When not
on the road, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "On
the road," for Millman, usually means off it - preferably
a destination difficult of access and unknown to almost
everyone else. Much of the time it also means somewhere
in the North. He has made twelve trips to Arctic Canada,
nine trips to Greenland, six to Labrador, and six to Iceland.
In fact, he sleeps with his head pointing north. For he
feels the only way he can get a good night's rest is to
align himself with the magnetic north pole and allow currents
flowing from it to pass through his body and out his feet.
He says any other point of the compass would result in
insomnia and likewise give his system a rude geographical
shock! |
