Priit Vesilind
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Priit J. Vesilind (January, 1943, Estonia) is an Estonian-born American senior writer and photojournalist of National Geographic magazine and an author of nonfiction.
In 1944, when Vesilind was one and a half, his mother Aino took him and his brother Aarne and fled to Czechoslovakia. The family were fleeing the Soviet occupation of his homeland during World War II. Later, his father Paul Eduard Vesilind rejoined his wife and children and they spent the next five years after the war in displaced persons camps in Germany. In 1949 the family emigrated to the United States of America. He spent his childhood in Western Pennsylvania. He is a 1964 graduate of the liberal arts college of Colgate University, located in the town of Hamilton in Madison County, New York, earning a BA in English and then an MA in Communications Photography from Syracuse University.
Prior to working for National Geographic, Vesilind was a reporter and editor for the Atlanta Journal, the Syracuse Herald Tribune, and the Providence Journal. Vesilind's career at National Geographic spans more than thirty years and he has become the magazine's Expedition's Editor and Senior Writer.
Vesilind currently works as a freelance writer and lives with his wife in Manassas, Virginia, USA.
[edit] Published works
- Lost Gold of the Republic: The Remarkable Quest for the Greatest Shipwreck Treasure of the Civil War Era, Publisher: Shipwreck Heritage Press (2004), ISBN 1-933034-06-8
- National Geographic On Assignment USA, Publisher: National Geographic Books (1997), ISBN 0-7922-7011-8
