Kari Herbert is an author, publisher and speaker. She first started travelling at the age of ten months when her father, pioneering explorer Sir Wally Herbert, took his family to live with a tribe of Polar Inuit for over two years on a remote island off the coast of Northwest Greenland. Kari has continued to travel extensively ever since and has become a successful author, travel photojournalist and popular speaker.
Kari’s first book – The Explorer’s Daughter – published by Penguin, was aired as ‘Book of the Week’ for BBC Radio 4. An extract of the book is also currently on the EdExcel English IGCSE curriculum. The book tells of her return to the place of her early childhood and her quest to understand her connection to both the polar wilderness and its unique people. Her other books include 'Heart of the Hero', which drew attention to the remarkable achievements of the wives of celebrated explorers, and 'In Search of the South Pole and Explorer’s Sketchbooks', which has been translated into multiple languages.
As a travel photojournalist, her work has been published in magazines and newspapers all over the world, including The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian and Geographical and Traveller magazines among many others. She has twice been a judge for The Guardian’s Travel Writing Competition.
Kari is an inspiring and energetic public speaker, who takes her audience on highly-visual thrilling journeys from the Arctic to the deserts of Oman. Her presentations are engaging, deeply personal, frank and inspiring. She frequently lectures at literary festivals and events and has spoken at venues such as the Royal Geographical Society, the British Library and the Explorers Club in New York, as well as at many schools and universities. Her most challenging talk, however, was given on board an expedition ship crossing the thirty-foot waves of the Drake Passage en-route to the Antarctic, with tables, chairs and her audience sliding back and forth across the room! She lives on a clifftop overlooking the Atlantic with her husband, historian and polar guide Dr Huw Lewis-Jones, and their daughter Nell.
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