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Within the series of conferences organized by White Star Adventure (Piazza Meda - Milano) report events for next week (January 30 -11 February).
30-mar 18.30 - On the Wings of a Bee
idea a bit 'crazy - traveling aboard a Piaggio Ape - and an overwhelming passion: to know people, cultures and landscapes. Eight months of slow travel-sized meeting with the people and the most remote places on Earth, between Lisbon and Beijing in an often arduous journey of 25,000 kilometers through 20 countries in 212 days. As a new Marco Polo, Paul Brovelli, adventurous traveler, linguist, and photographer, has tried to bridge the distance - physical but mental - between East and West. Introduced and moderated by Pierre and Fissore Andrea Bocconi.
31-Jan Wed 18.30 - Mongolia and the Gobi Desert - Route on the edge of nowhere
One of the least known and most inaccessible places on our planet, the Gobi, which swallowed whole expeditions in the past in China and that until 1990 was largely untouched by Western visitors. To tell us about Roberto Ive, restless dell'inesplorato hunter who lived in Mongolia for many years and was the Italian-language "Mongolian Arts University in Ulaan Baatar. A trail of images that touch the sacred mountains, unknown monasteries, graveyards of dinosaurs, remote valleys. Magical and mysterious situations in which the forces of nature have yet powerful voice and physical presence: the story of the snow leopard in Noyon, the encounter with the old soothsayer of Sainshand. Tales from the result of real experiences, in which the author is never the protagonist, but the only witness to a primordial world mysterious and distant.
01-Feb Thurs 18.30 - half the world view of car: from Paris to Beijing in 60 days
A challenge from the French newspaper "Le Matin", a firm in 1907 seems impossible by car for more than 15,000 kilometers, from Beijing to Paris. Luigi Barzini, special correspondent of the Corriere della Sera ", participated in the historic event on Italy led by Prince Scipione Borghese and tells this adventure quickly and directly with the air of the chronicler of the breed. The result is the first major Italian report, published in 1908 in 11 languages \u200b\u200band defined by its first publisher - Pearson Education, Inc. - a real "raid editorial."
the centenary of the talk about the journalist Ludina Barzini, Luigi's grandson, Ettore Mo, envoy of the Corriere della Sera and Danilo Elia, bizarre and passionate traveler who has traveled in 2005 with a Fiat 500 that separate the 16,000 km from Bari Beijing .
leads Luca Clerici, professor of contemporary Italian literature at the University of Milan and curator of the collection Report 1900, in which the Touring has republished the book of Barzini.
08-Feb Thurs 18.30 - Deserts and Silence Sand
Carla Perrotti, documentary filmmaker with a long experience in travels and expeditions in the most wild and unexplored land, is the first woman to solo across the largest desert on Earth. With the Tuareg Ténéré desert in Niger following a caravan of salt, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the largest salt basin of the earth at 3,700 meters high, 350 km of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and the Taklimakan Desert in China, closed in the mountains hymalaiane, traveling from south to north for 550 km in 24 days (first human to cross on foot and in this lonely desert, the second in the world after the Sahara uninhabitable as a surface).
Finally, always alone and the first woman in the world to accomplish this feat, in twenty days he walked across the Simpson Desert in the heart of the Australian continent.
10-Feb Sat 16.00 - Jimi Hendrix
Federico Poggipollini, guitarist Ligabue, and Paolo Pavanello, guitarist Line 77, present a biography of Jimi Hendrix, missed a piece in the library of any music lover. "Jimi Hendrix Treasures and Memories" turns the spotlight on the life of the icon of the guitar, with its revolutionary electric style, has accompanied a new generation at the heart of rock and roll. The co-authors Janie Hendrix and John McDermott, thanks to the unique opportunities for access to archives private family, they say, through the use of unusual memorabilia, the vibrant life of Jimi, from his formative years in Seattle a difficult, going through the brief period before the eyes of an adoring audience, to the moments that have Following his untimely death.
Sun 11-Feb 17.00 - Roald Amundsen
famous Norwegian explorer, as expected family should devote to studying medicine. Instead, guided by an innate sense of adventure and fascinated by the poles, decides to leave for Antarctica. On 14 December 1911 the five members of the group planted the flag of Norway at the South Pole on 25 January 1912, the expedition was to return to the field 2.980km base after driving in 99 days. A month later, Scott will also speak English on the spot and found a message left by the Norwegians. In 1926 together with Italian Nobile flies over the North Pole with the airship Norge.
And when Nobile crashed on the pack with the airship Italy, after reaching the North Pole, the Norwegian explorer part in his rescue. Amundsen
off, without return, June 17, 1928. Of him there was no news. We talked about the great grandson of Amundsen, Petter Johannesen, an expert on polar expeditions himself and explorer who in 2001 and 2006 reached the North Pole.
I would like to dedicate these beautiful lines taken from" The Picture of Dorian Gray, "the incomparable Oscar Wilde, to all those who are afraid of growing old and those who do not take decisions for fear of making mistakes. 
