Really enjoying @TylerCowen's Conversations with Tyler with Paul Salopek about his 'Out of Eden' project, to retrace human migrations out of Africa, a journey that will take him 24,000 miles!

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So much nitty gritty about the *how*!

(thanks Patricia Hurducaș for the…

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler what it was like to walk 700 miles across the plains of eastern Turkey, historically called Anatolia, a land that connects Europe with Asia. #EdenWalk Out of Eden Walk
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“I walked into Beijing on a goat trail. This may surprise readers. It certainly startled me.” —Paul Salopek

Read “Walking Map: Mazes of Beijing,” which links to our newest city map, an interactive map of #Beijing alleyways: outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-…

📷 Paul Salopek #EdenWalk

After walking 4,000 km through #China , I plodded dazed & dusty into #Beijing , down goat trails from the steamy hills west of the city. Where to stay in the capital of 22 million? 'Try the hutongs,' friends said: a hidden world of alleyways. See our map. outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-…

🏔️ Paul talks with The World’s host Carolyn Beeler about walking 700 miles across the plains of eastern Turkey, a land that connects Europe with Asia, in 2014: theworld.org/stories/2024/0… Pictured: Murat Yazar, Kirkatir the mule, & Mustafa Filiz in the Caucasus range. 📷 Paul Salopek

For 7 months I trekked across #Anatolia , the colossal Asian peninsula of #Turkey . What I found was a landscape crisscrossed by ghosts. Among the oldest farmed fields in the world. Roman roads. Overgrown Armenian hamlets. Bronze Age outposts. @theworld theworld.org/stories/2024/0…

“At three miles an hour with Paul, I was able to discover with each step a new perspective on my city.” —Walking Partner Zhengrong Qian

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Pictured: Zhengrong Qian and Walking Partner Evan Osnos walk near Beijing's Marco Polo Bridge. 📷 Paul Salopek

Earlier this month, Paul Salopek joined National Geographic Education’s Explorer Classroom Storytelling Series.

A recording of Paul’s program, “Journalism on Foot,” is available for viewing here: m.youtube.com/live/eUsh-DVDT…

Photo by Tracy Crowley. #ExplorerClassroom #EdenWalk

Thanks, Michael Nielsen. I’ve had to explain myself often-as you might imagine-for 15,000 slow miles, all the way across the globe. The interview with tylercowen was like conversing with a learned old friend who was walking along. Conversations with Tyler Out of Eden Walk #EdenWalk

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler what it was like to walk 700 miles across the plains of eastern Turkey, historically called Anatolia, a land that connects Europe with Asia. #EdenWalk Out of Eden Walk
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How to find a good story in your own community?

- Curiosity.
- Scan the horizons—don’t focus on just 1 trail or narrative. (Be open to glimpses from the corner of your eye.)
- Listen, listen, listen.

Storytelling tips for students via Nat Geo Education
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Help students picture their climate future. Support a participatory photo project, launched by Out of Eden Walk friend & HomeStories volunteer Jonathan Fisher, including a program, exhibit, documentary & publication: kickstarter.com/projects/seein… Images courtesy of Seeing for Ourselves

Crossing the island of #Cyprus on foot was surreal. Sun-hammered beaches. Bee Gees at the discos on oldies nights. Vodka soaked tourist resorts. And a no-man’s-land guarded by UN forces slicing through it all, the scar of a largely forgotten war. 1/

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“With Paul Salopek, on foot, [Beijing’s] details came into focus, and I could readily identify the locations we passed by, but I couldn’t offer any personal insights or experiences from my motorized past.” —Zhengrong “Ronny” Qian in our new guest dispatch: outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/blogs/lab-talk…

‘Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep & permanent, in the ideas of living.’

Student & guest walker Qian Zhengrong quotes Miriam Beard on an eye-opening 3-day stroll through his hometown, #Beijing .

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Last week, Paul Salopek joined National Geographic Education’s Explorer Classroom Storytelling Series.

👣 A recording of Paul’s session, “Journalism on Foot,” is available for viewing here: youtube.com/live/eUsh-DVDT…

Photo by Tracy Crowley. #NatGeoExplorer

Qian “Ronny” Zhengrong, 17, hoped to join the Out of Eden Walk in one of #China ’s wild regions. Instead, because of timing, he ended up traversing his hometown— #Beijing , pop. 22 million. Here’s what he discovered about home in 3 days of urban trekking.
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“[Cyprus] was like walking into a polyglot bazaar.” — Paul Salopek, talking with The World’s Carolyn Beeler.

Listen to the latest story about Out of Eden Walk: theworld.org/stories/2024/0…

Pictured: Moving inland across one of the planet’s oldest inhabited islands. 📷Paul Salopek