Around the World in 90 Minutes

Thanks, Sally Verrando, for this great tip.

Around the World in 90 Minutes comes to Eastfield College


CONTACT: Amy McDonald, Marketing & Advertising Coordinator

972-860-7180 phone, 972-860-8324 fax, amymcdonald@ dcccd.edu

On March 2, award-winning author Marty Essen presents

his high-energy digital slide show, Around the World in 90 Minutes, at

Eastfield College.


Marty’s show features interesting facts, humorous stories, and the best

of thousands of photos he took while traveling the world for his book,

Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents. It's the

type of show where the audience has fun laughing at the stories, oohing

and aahing at the photos, and then, when it's all done, they realize

just how much they've learned.


Around the World in 90 Minutes began as a show Marty presented in

bookstores as part of his first book tour. Later, after numerous

refinements, the show took on a life of its own in colleges, museums,

and nature centers across the United States. In fact, it has been APCA’s

(a major college activities association) #1 booked college lecture for

sixteen months straight.

Highlights of Marty’s show include:

Amazing animal facts

Debunking animal myths

Cuddly wallaroos and spiny walking sticks

Charging elephants and howling wolves

Deadly snakes and friendly penguins

Bizarre creatures and endangered species

Swimming with piranhas

Kayaking in the rainforest

Hiking with the Porcupine caribou migration

Rafting with humpback whales

Surviving a hippo attack in Zimbabwe

Marty Essen has won multiple book awards for travel/essay writing,

including the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Best Books Book Award, and

the National Indie Excellence Award. In addition, he won a first place

award at 2009 Green Book Festival in Los Angeles, and the Minneapolis

Star-Tribune named Cool Creatures, Hot Planet a top-10 “green” book.



Show time: Tuesday, March 2, at 12:30 p.m.

Place: Eastfield College, Eastfield College Performance Hall, 3737

Motley Drive, Mesquite, TX

Phone: (972) 860-7186

Price: Free



For more information or an interview, contact Marty Essen at (406)

642-3333 or Marty@MartyEssen. com.



Eastfield College, one of the seven Dallas County Community Colleges,

is located at 3737 Motley Drive in Mesquite, just north of I-30.