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Bruce Kirkby

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Bruce Kirkby is a writer, photographer and adventurer whose journeys span 80 countries, and include crossing Arabia by camel, Mongolia by horse, and Iceland on foot. He’s been shot at in Borneo, taken hostage in Ethiopia, and captured by Myanmar’s army while on assignment. A travel columnist for the Globe & Mail, and former contributing editor for Explore Magazine, Bruce’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Outside.EnRoute and Canadian Geographic. The host of CBC's No Opportunity Wasted, and producer of Travel Channel’s Big Crazy Family Adventure, Bruce and his young family recently traveled overland from Canada to the Himalaya, where they lived in a remote Buddhist monastery, a journey detailed in an upcoming book, Kingdom of the ...more

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“Images often appear to hold more currency than the experience itself, and this hunger is inciting increasingly disrespectful behavior.”
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