Tom Clynes

Tom Clynes is an author, journalist and photographer whose passion for discovery has taken him to some of the world's most remote corners. Tom writes about environmental issues, science, adventure travel, and culture for a wide range of publications.

In recent years, he has covered Ebola outbreaks and armed conflicts in central Africa, retraced Edmund Hillary's climbs in New Zealand, learned to fly in the Australian outback, and chased the ghosts of outlaws and freedom fighters in Iceland, Jamaica and Vanuatu.

Tom Clynes is a contributing editor for National Geographic Adventure and author of the books “Wild Planet” and "Music Festivals from Bach to Blues."

Clynes also writes and photographs for Popular Science, The Times of London, Backpacker Magazine, Men's Journal and The Washington Post. He is a Pew Fellow in International Journalism, and a two-time recipient of the Lowell Thomas Award. His magazine stories often appear in Houghton-Mifflin’s “Best American” series of magazine-writing anthologies.

Tom Clynes's book "Music Festivals from Bach to Blues" won the American Library Association's Reference Book of the Year award in 1997.

Tom grew up in Michigan and has lived in Chicago, London, and New York City. He now lives in rural Vermont but continues to travel, trying to satisfy “a thirst for spectacle and a fascination for the planet's cultural nooks and crannies.”