Program 462a: Indigenous Arctic and Andes; Overbooked

A bestselling author of a book on the Northwest Passage describes how the Inuit of Canada and Greenland are responding to modern challenges posed by changes to the Arctic environment. Then we delve with a filmmaker into the pre-Columbian world of the Incas, and ponder what untold stories the Andes Mountains may still hold. Plus, a well-traveled journalist joins us to consider the impact of recent growth in the global travel industry, wherein a billion people a year now cross international borders in search of something new.

• Kathleen Winter, author of "Boundless:  Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage"  (Counterpoint)
• Filmmaker Kim MacQuarrie, author of "Life and Death in the Andes" (Simon and Schuster)
• Journalist Elizabeth Becker, author of "Overbooked"  (Simon and Schuster)

• Kathleen Winter's website. She also posts on the Livejournal blog.
• Counterpoint Press posts an interview National Geographic conducted with Kathleen Winter about her travel memoir "Boundless."  
• Elizabeth Becker writes about recent trends in the global travel industry in "Overbooked."
• She wrote an editorial for the New York Times on a variety of pushbacks against tourism around the world.