Slide show, talk & reading from UNTAMED PLACES Adventures in Mountains, Deserts, Jungles, Rivers, and Ruins, a unique new adventure travel book by local author Norman Brown September 25, 2011

One of the original “Mad Men” of advertising fame, Norman Brown was the former CEO of one of the largest agencies in the world. Here he recounts his adventures traveling the globe after he retired—climbing Kilimanjaro and Fuji, going to base camp of K2, retracing Marco Polo’s route along the Silk Road and, closer to home, rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, among many others that. Incredibly, he did this in the seventh and eight decades of his life, often in the company of people half his age. With nearly 200 color photographs, most by Brown himself, and others by luminaries such as Galen Rowell, as well as introductory texts and over 100 poems composed by Brown, this is a uniquely compelling, intimate portrait not only of the world’s wildest and most exotic places, but of an entertaining and inspiring person.
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo Street, on the corner of Galisteo and Water Streets, 2 blocks southwest of the Santa Fe Plaza, Sandoval Parking Garage is halfway down the block, 505-988-4226, www.collectedworksbookstore.com