"Around the World in 90 Minutes" by Marty Essen

Author of "Cool Creatures, Hot Planet," presents a high-energy, seven continents, digital slide show full of laughs, surprises, and interesting facts.

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 across the United States. Recently it reached #1 in total lecture bookings on APCA's (a major college activities association) website.

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, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune named Cool Creatures, Hot Planet a top-10 "green" book.