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Mission:Explore featured in The Guardian G2

August 6th, 2010 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Mission Explore was featured in The Guardian G2 kids section yesterday, 5 August under the headline How to be an Explorer. And they are asking any of you kids out there to send photos in from your adventures to g2kids@guardian.co.uk – so get out there and show them what guerilla geography is all about.

Geography Collective launches Risk Aversion tracking blog

May 12th, 2010 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

The wonderfully inventive and incorrigibly curious crew at The Geography Collective have launched a new blog to track stories in the media about risk aversion. Our recently published book: Mission:Explore, written by The Geography Collective and illustrated by Tom Morgan-Jones is the purest antidote known to man*(kind) and beast for the cotton wool culture that our children are being enveloped in.

Do please go and take a look at their blog: http://thegeographycollective.wordpress.com/ as well as the book, and please tell your friends.

* for man please also read woman, boy, girl, child, etc. etc

Walkit.com takes Mission:Explore in its stride

March 30th, 2010 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

The intrepid folk at Walkit.com have kindly given us a great plug for Mission Explore. Why not walk over that way and see what they say on their site.

Good Morning Afghanistan by Waseem Mahmood

June 2nd, 2009 • • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Good Morning Afghanistan, Waseem Mahmood’s most recent book, recounts a true story of how a courageous band of media warriors assist a broken nation in finding a voice through the radio.  Over the airwaves, a land devastated by decades of war begins to battle with words rather than weapons.  A glimmer of hope emerges in the form of a spirited little breafast-time radio programme, Good Morning Afghanistan.

“Good Morning Afghanistan… was an important start in bringing fat and uncensored information to the war-stricken people of Afghanistan.”  From the foreword by Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan