Writing & Photography
Dan Buettner's writing and photography have appeared in numerous publications, including National Geographic World, LIFE, Sports Illustrated, Outside, Popular Mechanics and the Chicago Tribune.
Dan Buettner's landmark cover story on three of the world's longest-lived places– Sardinia, Okinawa and Loma Linda– discovers what these places have in common, what makes them unique, and what we can all learn from them if we choose. >>
 Outside
He's biked more than 120,000 miles around the globe and is considered the father of the interactive expedition, but Dan Buettner may be on the verge of his greatest feat to date: unlocking the secret to long life...
 Popular Mechanics
It is past midnight deep in Australia's central desert. Battery-powered halogen lamps create a bubble of light where nine scientists and explorers, glistening with sweat, sit huddled around a cigarette pack-size TV monitor, peering into a digital camera. Behind the camera, ankle deep in snake-infested bush, satellite technologist Jerome Thelia pushes a button and starts the cyberwhine of connected computers. . .
 MayaQuest
When the MayaQuest team of cyclists and archaeologists struck off into the jungles of Mexico and Central America, they weren't alone. The computers and satellite dish they carried on their bikes linked them via the Internet to more than a million people. These online adventurers not only helped direct the expedition, their collective intuition and expertise helped the team illuminate perhaps the greatest mystery of all time: The collapse of the ancient Maya civilization.
 Sovietrek
In 1990, the Soviet Union was a large, powerful nation made up of fifteen member republics. Much of this vast land was unknown to Americans, a fact that intrigued veteran cyclist Dan Buettner. He decided to mount an expedition to cross southern Russia, the largest of the Soviet republics.
To accompany him on this journey, which came to be called Sovietrek, Dan put together a special team of two citizens from the United States and two from the Soviet Union. Together the four cyclists spent months preparing Sovietrek, which left America in April 1990 and arrived at the Soviet border in June.
 Africatrek
In 1992, Dan Buettner and his brother assembled a multiracial and multinational team of bikers to accompany them on their journey from Tunisia to South Africa, and, along the way, into the Guinness Book of World Records. As Dan's journal counts off the days that have passed and the miles successfully covered, he also chronicles the team's encounters with local people and setbacks endured because of injury, climate, and politics. In addition to the numerous full-color photographs, maps are nicely used to record the forward motion, including the elevation of the terrain.
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