Silversea Cruises reveals its line-up of esteemed Tale Tellers for its Tale of Tales World Cruise 2022. The leading ultra-luxury cruise ship line names 9 renowned creatives that will each set sail on one sector of following year’s 138-day World Cruise, enhancing the experience for the cruise line’s visitors as they discover 69 destinations in 32 nations aboard Silver Whisper. Visitors will visit six continents as they take a trip from 65 ° S to 65 ° N, departing Fort Lauderdale on January 5, 2022, as well as getting here in Copenhagen on May 22. In addition to holding informative presentations on a variety of topics while on board, each Tale Teller will certainly contribute a chapter to the Tale of Tales compilation, which will certainly be talented to guests as a memento upon the trip’s verdict.
The nine Tale Tellers joining Silversea’s Tale of Tales World Cruise 2022 consist of:
PICO IYER– Cape Town to Mahé: Pico Iyer is a worldwide author and novelist whose travels have taken him right from Antarctica to North Korea. Author of 15 books, Pico has likewise, for 35 years, been a regular author for magazines such as Time, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books and The New York Times, as well as 250 others. Born in England to Indian moms and dads, partially raised in California and informed at Eton, Oxford, and also Harvard, Pico started travelling to institution alone over the North Pole several times a year at the age of 9. A four-time audio speaker for TED, Pico’s thoughts on both movement and also serenity have been included by everyone from Oprah to Larry King. Pico is based in Western Japan, where he copes with his partner when not investing or taking a trip time at a Benedictine hermitage in California.
PAUL THEROUX– Fort Lauderdale to Lima (Callao): Paul Theroux was birthed in Medford, Massachusetts. After college, he worked and also lived for expanded durations in Africa, Singapore and also Great Britain, prior to going back to the United States in 1989. He is the writer of many highly acclaimed jobs, consisting of The Great Railway Bazaar (1975 ), Mother Land (2017) as well as Under the Wave at Waimea (2021 ). In 2015, Theroux was granted the Founders Medal from the Royal Geographical Society for ‘the encouragement of geographical discovery through travel writing.’ This award, approved by the Queen, is the highest honor achievable for a tourist, as well as Theroux joins the rankings of receivers who consist of Sir Edmund Hillary and Dr. Thor Heyerdahl. His other awards include the Whitbread Prize as well as the James Tait Black Award. His guidebook, The Old Patagonian Express: By Train via the Americas, and his novel The Mosquito Coast were nominated for the American Book Award. His novels Saint Jack, The Mosquito Coast, as well as Half Moon Street have all been made into films. Paul Theroux splits his time in between Hawaii and Cape Cod.
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ– Lima (Callao) to Ushuaia: Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance as well as Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. A recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and also the John Bates Clark Medal (1979 ), he is a former senior vice head of state as well as primary economic expert of the World Bank and a previous member as well as chairman of the (U.S. President’s) Council of Economic Advisers. In 2011, Time magazine named Stiglitz as one of the 100 most influential individuals worldwide. He is the author of various publications, including numerous bestsellers. His most recent titles are People, Power, and also Profits, Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy, Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited, The Euro, as well as Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy.
MONICA HANNA– Mahé to Aqaba (Petra): Dr. Monica Hanna is an international number in the globe of Archaeology. After studying at the American University in Cairo from 2004, she signed up with the University of Pisa, Italy, to finish her doctorate in Archaeology, consequently coming to be a post-doctoral other in the Topoi Excellence Cluster at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Hanna is now an associate teacher and also the acting dean of the College of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage at Egypt’s Arab Academy for Science, Technology and also Maritime Transport. Because 2011, Hanna has actually worked to raise recognition for the circumstances of Egypt’s historical sites. She has won many honors, consisting of the SAFE sign honor, as well as UNESCO called her the ‘Monuments Woman’ in 2014. In 2021, she was called among the 50 most influential women in Egypt.
ASMA KHAN– Bordeaux to Reykjavik: Asma Khan is the cook as well as owner of the restaurant Darjeeling Express. She moved to Cambridge from Calcutta in 1991. Now staying in London, she originates from an imperial background– Rajput on her father’s side and also Bengali on her mother’s. After researching regulation, Asma took place to do a PhD in British Constitutional Law at King’s College London, yet food preparation was always her interest. Khan opened Darjeeling Express in June 2017. A year later, Pavilion published her debut cookbook Asma’s Indian Kitchen, which was granted at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Asma was the initial British cook to feature on Netflix’s Emmy-nominated ‘Chef’s Table’, as well as her episode received a 2020 James Beard Award nomination. Furthermore, Business Insider named her number 1 on their listing of ‘100 Coolest People in Food and Drink’. She also ended up being the very first cook to include on Vogue’s listing of 25 most significant women of the year for 2020.
