Cheltenham Literature Festival
The Garden Theatre, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Julia Wheeler talks to two adventurers about their remarkable journeys to the planet’s most at-risk areas. Leon McCarron travelled 1,600km of the Tigris River – once the lifeblood of ancient Mesopotamia and modern Iraq, rendered almost uninhabitable by climate change and geopolitics – by boat. Kate Rawles rode a self-built bamboo bike 8,000 miles through...
‘Engaging, accessible, informative, hard-hitting and ultimately up-beat talks about tackling our most urgent environmental challenges. At the end of the day, the adventure of sustainability is one we’re all on. Kate inspires and calls us to rise to it.’
