Angus Adventures: Learning Through Exploration!All adventures and backpackers will have an interest in this couple. Julie and Colin Angus are bold adventures, having explored and documented their travels in waterways and on land all over the world including Canada. They are presently preparing for presentations in Ottawa, Waterloo, Toronto, and Kingston. They have authored several books including the recent, "Rowed Trip: from Scotland to Syria By Oar", have produced films, have a great blog, website, and Facebook page, and do motivational public-speaking presentation among other things. They are raved about by fellow bloggers and reputable news programs alike and with good reason. Check out the links and you'll understand why.
Colin completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the planet (43,000 km, 720 days) in 2006. Before that he led the first descent of the Yenisey River and of one of the first of the Amazon River. He is the author of four books and has produced documentaries on many of his journeys. Outside magazine named him one of the top 25 bold visionaries with world changing dreams and National Geographic Adventure awarded him Adventurer of the Year in 2007.
Julie is the first and only woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean from mainland to mainland - 10,000 km in 5 months. She has authored two books, produced two documentaries, and written for an array of magazines and newspapers. Julie has a graduate degree in molecular biology and spent five years developing treatments for medical disorders before fully focusing on adventure and exploration. She received the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year award alongside Colin and the McMaster ARCH award.
You won't regret checking them out.
Feature of the week, November 16th to 22nd, 2009
submitted by Kennedy Jones
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