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"See the World" travel talks at the Pratt Library
With receptions following at the Hostel
September 13 and October 11 at 6:30 p.m.

See the World - Travel to exotic locales with Sandy Meyers and Don Messersmith. These slide-illustrated travel lectures are presented in partnership with the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Friends of Baltimore Hostel and the Potomac Area Council of Hostelling International USA.

Southern Adventures:
Expeditions on Bare Land in Argentina
and in Bear Country in Pisgah Forest,
North Carolina
Presented by Sandy Meyers

Wednesday, September 13, 6:30 p.m.
Central Library - Poe Room (400 Cathedral Street)

Presenter Sandy Meyers, veteran of 15 Earthwatch expeditions, prospected for dinosaur bones in a Triassic valley in Argentina's Talampaya National Park last year. In 2000 she helped process black bears for radio tracking in the hills surrounding the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

Southern Brazil:
Birds and Mammals
Presented by Don Messersmith

Wednesday, October 11, 6:30 p.m.
Central Library - Poe Room (400 Cathedral Street)

Presenter Don Messersmith has been organizing and leading nature tours all over the world for more than 50 years. His travels have taken him to every continent and over 100 countries. On a recent trip to Brazil, he visited the vast Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, home to hundreds of species of birds and many mammals. His groups also visited the huge Iguasu Falls, Rio de Janeiro with an excursion to the forests of the rare Golden Lion Tamarin monkeys, and to cool, mountainous Itiatiai National Park. Dr. Messersmith is a retired University of Maryland Professor Emeritus of Entomology, Ornithology and Environmental Education.

Following each lecture, you're invited to a reception at the Baltimore Hostel, across from the Central Library.

The Hostel is located at 17 W. Mulberry Street between Charles and Cathedral streets, by the Basilica of the Assumption and the Central Pratt Library in Mount Vernon.
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