Nathan Thornburgh is the co-founder of Roads & Kingdoms.
"You have to remain committed to the kind of irrational act of producing journalism for an uncaring world. You have to want to do that so bad, that you will never not be doing that. There’s so many ways to die in this business."
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[01:45] Roads & Kingdoms
[02:50] Pico Iyer
[01:45] Coin Talk
[05:35] "SATW Foundation Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition Awards for Works Published in 2014 - 2015"
[07:40] "The Prawn War" (Michael Snyder • Roads & Kingdoms • Sep 2016)
[17:40] "The Mysterious Demise of Lucky Peach Magazine and Its Uncertain Future" (Tim Carman • Washington Post • March 2017)
[20:15] "The Sound of Change: Can Music Save Cuba?" (Time • Nov 2008)
[27:10] “Myanmar Unsanctioned" (Roads & Kingdoms • March 2012)
[27:20] “Three Keys to Eating Well in Burma" (Matt Goulding • Roads & Kingdoms • May 2012)
[28:10] "PRO MOVES by Breville and Roads and Kingdom" (breville • Feb 2015)
[32:20] "Getting Kabul’s Milk to Market" (May Jeong • Roads & Kingdoms • Oct 4 2013)
[39:20] Grape, Olive, Pig, Travels: Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture (Matt Goulding • Harper Wave/Anthony Bourdain • 2016)
[41:00] "The R&K Guide to Accra"
[41:15] "The R&K Guide to Tokyo"
[41:30] "The R&K Guide to New Orleans"
[48:10] The Trip
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