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Rolf Potts: Cultural Body Language, Vagabonding, Minimalism | Ep.124
Align Podcast
Aaron Alexander
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Rolf Potts (born October 13, 1970) is an American travel writer, essayist, and author. He has written two books, Vagabonding(Random House, 2003) and Marco Polo Didn't Go There (Travelers Tales, 2008), and his travel writing has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Outside, Salon.com, Slate.com, The Guardian, and World Hum. His non-travel essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, the New York Times Magazine, and the digital versions of The Nation and The Atlantic.[1]
Potts directs the summer creative writing workshop at the Paris American Academy,[2] and he was the 2011-2012 ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.[3] He currently teaches nonfiction writing at Yale University.
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| 0:13.6 | How much you can take and keep moving forward? |
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| 0:28.6 | A Line Podcast. |
| 0:29.6 | Welcome back to the Line Podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | My name is Aaron Alexander. |
| 0:32.0 | Today's absolutely beautiful |
| 0:33.4 | episode I got to have someone I've been following for quite a while now Mr Rolf |
| 0:37.2 | Potts he has been for man I don't know how many copies of his book it's sold |
| 0:42.2 | but it's definitely all over the world |
| 0:44.8 | vagabonding one of the most popular books around in the realm of travel and just this concept of leaving our lifestyle that we become so accustomed to detribalization |
| 0:58.9 | is what Joe Campbell would call it, starting to recognize that we are a product of our culture and it will behoove us to |
| 1:06.5 | step outside of that box and kind of have a little reflection of what the heck is going on inside this thing. |
| 1:11.5 | His book recently had a re-insurgence from Tim Ferris. |
| 1:17.1 | It's like one of his favorite books or one of his most influential books so he's been |
| 1:22.0 | sprinting all around and yeah |
| 1:24.0 | Rolf is all over the place so it's a really fun conversation I hope you guys enjoy |
| 1:28.0 | and so I remember like my first week in Korea and I'm standing there in a mixed group of you know like |
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