Explorer and award-winning author, James Michael Dorsey returns to the library to revive his “BEFORE THEY VANISH,” travel presentation series.

James has visited dozens of isolated cultures in the world’s most remote areas; many that have no written language. Through vivid digital photography and master storytelling, James will introduce you to people and places much of the world does not know exist. Each monthly presentation will take you inside at least two varied societies.

This month we journey up one of the world’s mightiest rivers, the Mekong, through Vietnam to meet multiple generations of people who spend their entire lives on small boats on a river that never sleeps. Along the way we will go ashore to visit villages unchanged in hundreds of years. We will continue into the jungles of Cambodia to visit Angkor, and find temples that predate it by over a century, along with the monks and nuns that are their keepers in this remote and forbidding land. Finally we will meet a CNN hero who was once a child soldier for the Khmer Rouge, and now has devoted his life to blowing up land mines in a country saturated with them.

James will be selling and signing his books about these travels and looks forward to answering your questions about how our fellow humankind lives across this planet.

Please visit his website at https://www.jamesmichaeldorsey.com/ for more personal information.

Registration is required due to limited in person seating.