DescriptionAt an age when most children were reading Babar the Elephant books, Peter Beard was writing and illustrating his own. Years later, when the public was experiencing late-imperial Kenya via Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa, Beard left Yale and lit out for Africa with Dinesen's book and a head full of dreams. In Great White Photographer, Donald Katz interviews photographer and wild life conservationist, Peter Beard, exploring the debate over African game conservation. Great White Photograhper is one of the fascinating profiles featured in The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories by award-winning journalist Donald Katz, available in audio exclusively at audible.com?.
DescriptionIn Guru of the New Economy, Donald Katz profiles the seemingly unconventional career path of Paul Hawken, high school drop-out, new-age entrepreneur, and the man the chairman W.R. Grace called "a brilliant, independent thinker - one of the most creative I've seen." Guru of the New Economy is one of the fascinating profiles featured in The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories by award-winning journalist Donald Katz, available in audio exclusively at audible.com?. It was originally published in Esquire, December 1984.
DescriptionFritz Efaw, fugitive from justice, draft resister, and erstwhile enemy of the people, was finally coming home; and he was coming because he'd been elected to attend the Democratic National Convention. A project that had started as a grand foray into polit…
DescriptionAt fifty-six, Nan Kempner is not so much youthful and pretty as she is striking and sinuously handsome. She is known - and occasionally resented - in her circle for her astounding thinness, and when she hasn't 'gone to bone, ' which does happen every now a…
DescriptionFor decades the male portion of several American generations had concentrated its fantasies of erotic experience on thousands of images of 'the girl next door, ' unself-consciously naked and ready to go, and now, it seemed - according to numerous sophistic…
DescriptionFor more than a century, the short ride home on a train - away from the urgency and innumerable threats of the city - has been essential to a shared vision of safety that in many ways defines the purpose of life in an American suburb. Everyone riding in t…
DescriptionI was a few days shy of 40 on the day Steve Ilg clutched my limb. I was almost middle-aged, laid out like a lab specimen in a New Mexico gym, and quite sure as the vise tightened that I was going to pass the milestone of my birthday with a left leg capable of bending the wrong way at the knee. It was then that I paused to consider again the array of follies that can attend an otherwise reasonable life. In The Ilgiad, Donald Katz takes us along on his path to physical fitness as he trains for a triathlon under the guidance of his personal sports-performance trainer, Steve Ilg. The Ilgiad is one of the fascinating profiles featured in The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories by award-winning journalist Donald Katz, available in audio exclusively at audible.com. It was originally published in Outside, May 1992.
DescriptionHe thinks that old liberals are 'bubbleheads.' He does admit to being a 'cottage industry capitalist.' He has a strong sense of 'Puritan ethic' which extends to his belief that America is the best place to achieve as long as you're not handicapped 'by bei…
DescriptionIn this amusing essay, Donald Katz tells us of his encounter with Reg Mellor, King of the Ferret Leggers, and describes the bizarre sport of Ferret Legging. Audible.com? invites you to listen to The King of the Ferret Leggers - FREE. It is the title story in the collection of profiles by award-winning journalist Donald Katz, The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories, an audible.com audio exclusive.
