Are you ready for an adventure?
A new Adventure Travel book by IMAX® Film Producer Mike Day
The World Has a Big Backyard is a new book coming this September from IMAX® film Executive Producer Mike Day. His work has led him to magnificent locations including the tallest sand dunes in the world in Namibia and Jane Goodall's research site in Africa. Readers will find his travel memoir entertaining, educational, and inspirational. He shares adventure travel stories from Iceland to Singapore and takes readers chasing tornadoes, total eclipses, and $30/night motel rooms.
The World Has a Big Backyard will be available this September from Amazon.
Read a passage from the book The World Has a Big Backyard
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Respect the People
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The World Has a Big Backyard is featured on the Travel with Rick Steves podcast.
"If everybody had an uncle like Mike Day, I think not only would we have a lot of curious and broad minded people, but this world would be a better place."
— Rick Steves
(Program 768: Pan-American Road Trip; Filming the World’s Backyard; Travel Pursuits)
About Mike
Mike Day spent his career in museums inspiring others to learn about and connect with their world. During his museum career in Minnesota he served as executive producer of 15 documentary films made in the world's largest film format—IMAX®—which led him to some of the world’s most interesting places, from the jungles of Costa Rica to tuna auctions in Tokyo. He has come to believe there is no better enrichment experience than travel that pushes us outside of our comfort zones to witness the unfamiliar, explore the unknown, and question our assumptions.
