James Schwartz

speaks english, german, french and some minor fringe tribe dialects, as well as being quite proficient with hands and feet

studied international development

worked as videojournalist, both freelance and resident

sold cars to northern africa when this was still a romantic business proposition

operated a wilderness lodge in the subarctic and led dogsled expeditions along the russian border

has lived in major capitals, in reindeer herder cabins, tents of all sorts, mountain huts and on a nutshell of a sailboat

on a quest for the elusive balance between modern human life and the connection to life-giving earth

a nomad, storyteller, minimalist and improviser