Donovan Webster

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Donovan Webster (b. January 13, 1959) is a journalist and author. A former senior editor for Outside magazine, he now writes for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Best Life, Vanity Fair, Garden & Gun, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. He lives with his family outside Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Aftermath - The Remnants of War, Donovan Webster, Pantheon Books, New York, 1996 ISBN 0-679-43195-0
  • The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II, Donovan Webster, Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 2003 ISBN 0-06-074638-6
  • Babylon by Bus, Ray Lemoine & Jeff Neumann, (with Donovan Webster), Penguin Press, New York, NY, 2006 ISBN 1-59420-091-2

He wrote "Traveling the Long Road to Freedom, One Step at a Time," which was published in Smithsonian magazine; this article was recently used in the English language and literature pre-release material, 2006 (AQA).

His latest project was with the expedition Running the Sahara. The expedition was filmed and will be edited into a documentary, Running for Africa, narrated by Matt Damon and set for release in November 2007 with the logistics support of Sam Rutherford at www.prepare2go.com.

The Running the Sahara project began in Senegal, went through Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Libya, before culminating in Egypt. Runners included Ray Zahab and Kevin Lin.