Interview with Travel Video Guru David Adams

An inquisitive journalist, documentary filmmaker, as good as radio host, David Adams has retraced a voyages of Jason as good as a Argonauts, wanted for a Ark of a Covenant in Ethiopia, sought a Disk of a Sun in Peru as good as followed a final footsteps of Butch Cassidy as good as a Sundance Kid in Bolivia for his 13 part Discovery Network array Journeys to a Ends of a Earth.

Image: David Adams Films

I CAUGHT UP with David as he gears up to recover his brand new project Oxus: Riddles of an Ancient River a speed in to Afghanistan to examine a mysteries of a fabled Oxus stream as good as a evidence of cataclysmic meridian change in ages past.

Myself, MatadorTV intern Eric Warren as good as village part of Dustin Johnson asked assorted questions.

But first, some contribution upon David Adams:

*First outing abroad: 9 year aged PNG Sepik River, Mt Hagan, Lae, Goroka Port Morsby
*Favorite books: Kim Rudyard Kipling / Eastern Approaches Fitzroy McLean
*Most memorable destination: The Wakhan, Afghanistan
*Last strain listened to: Burn Your Name Powderfinger
*Favorite chronological period: Bronze Age
*Heros: Plato, Mandella, Zheng He, Jim Corbet, Richard Burton (not a actor) as good as of march Ghandi

Dustin Johnson: How do we acquire all of a background information upon a areas we visit? Books, internal people, archives, internet, magazines? Do we investigate while upon your adventures?

DA : I lend towards to be drawn to places that I have studied or have been intrigued by as good as then investigate as deeply as possible before I travel.

In all of a places we have been, where have been a Western perceptions of a people a most discordant to a being of those people?

Afghanistan, a Islamic universe in general, a perception of a 3rd world; a direction, needs as good as what it requ! ires fro m a West!

Eric Warren: History as good as mythology seem to be a vital inspiration upon your travel video work. What was a inspiration upon your first genuine travel destination, as good as how did that evolve in to what youre we do now?

I trafficked to PNG with my parents when I was 9 (1973) as good as became aware of a very opposite world, mostly enlightened by my parents, their passion as good as their pleasure in educating me about a a very old / pick universe that they reputable deeply.

When youve been roving in a footsteps of some chronological figure or event, what was a discovery youve done that really surprised you?

TS Elliot can most appropriate answer this ..

We shall not stop from exploration
And a finish of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know a place for a first time.

Through a unknown, unremembered gate
When a final of earth left to discover
Is that which was a beginning;
At a source of a longest stream

Adams sails by dhow from Lamu to Zanzibar, stopping off upon a beaches upon East Africa to haggle as good as barter for his sea passage. Sinbad lives again!

Joshywashington: What kind of a organisation do we work with?

Generally up to five, over a final 3 years in Afghanistan only a camera male as good as myself as more than a single car poses problems.

Does your organisation also have to be good roving partners as good as have been they as brave as you?

DA : The most important thing is to be able to get upon well, sell creatively as good as laugh a lot. Greg Nelson is a Director of Photography I have worked with for a final 5 years as good as he is far reduction fazed about goings upon than I will ever be!

What journey is during a top of your bucket list?

DA : Searching for, discovering, preserving as good as expanding a final fragments of wildness!

Communi! ty Conne ction

Look for a debut of Oxus: Riddles of an Ancient River in a few reduced months as good as in a duration keep up with Adams as good as his organisation during MatadorTV.


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