 A travel lecture to inspire, entertain, and surprise
David offers travel lectures that go beyond being a collection of beautiful images. He has stories to tell, and insights to share, based on
engaging with countries and their people. Click on a blue heading or image to find out
more about each talk.
David worked in the national park as a ranger, and explored it extensively. This talk provides insights only available from someone
who knows the area intimately. This travel lecture features stories
of wilderness exploration, wildlife, history, and natural wonder.
In 1995 David spent over two months on this island on a wild animal conservation survey. Halfway through, the long dormant volcano decided to awake.
The excitement of catching wild animals day and night is overshadowed by the disruption caused by the volcano.
David presents an eye witness account of the first, evacuation triggering,
eruption and how people coped subsequently.
Sixteen years after he witnessed the first eruptions that turned the island upside down, David returned to see how the island has changed. The people
are still just as friendly but the airport and the capital are now destroyed and two thirds of the island is now an exclusion zone. This has caused a huge
upheaval in life and society and in this talk David shares the insights he gained and compares what he found with what he left.
(As featured on Radio 4's 'Excess Baggage' travel programme)
A trip around northern Canada in search of extreme wilderness yielded fun, thrills, and an appreciation of a remote way of life. Come and meet
the gold prospectors, police chiefs and rugged characters David met along the Alaska Highway while searching for mountain adventures.
Fly in to one of the largest ice fields in the Western Hemisphere and tackle its peaks and crevasses.
A 3 month wilderness experience living in the bush with wild animals is coupled with a recent trip staying with local people,
where he got under the skin of a fascinating society, learned the history of an African success story
and discovered his patron was at the heart of one of the greatest love stories
of the African continent.
A love of the American southwest permeates this wide ranging talk, which
delights in the wilderness and national parks of the area and also explains the
stories behind them. David has explored the area over many
years and shares the history, beauty and culture of a landscape that gripped
his soul like no other.
David has recently returned from an expedition on the marine research ship JOIDES Resolution in the Pacific. This is part
of an amazing international research program that has helped uncover the
secrets of tsunamis, earthquakes and climate change by drilling through
a hole in the bottom of the ship and into the seafloor.
Come on board and learn what it's like to conduct scientific research,
and support a self-contained floating community for months at a time, in one of the most difficult environments in the world.
Two months exploring this beautiful land, mainly on foot. The varied landscape, friendly people (apart from the carjacker), stunning vistas, and history
are all done justice in this talk.
“What alters else on sea and shore, These are unchanging; man must still
explore.”
Sir John Squire (1884-1958)
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public speaker on travel, adventure and the environment
Montserrat
- surviving the volcano 
Return
to Montserrat: reclaiming paradise
Wilderness Canada
Botswana:
Love, lions and democracy
The
Ship with a Hole in it
