March 25, 2010

Silversea’s Silver Spirit will take to the seas next January on a 119-day eastbound World Cruise traversing both hemispheres from Los Angeles to Southampton, highlighted by an impressive array of distinguished speakers. Among those already tapped to host enriching presentations are: Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist Dan Rather, who will host Voyage 5107, March 22 - April 3, Hong Kong – Singapore; British historian and biographer Robert Lacey, Voyage 5110, May 3-19, Athens – Southampton; Zahi Hawass, Egyptologist and secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, Voyage 5109, April 18 - May 3, Dubai – Athens; Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., former C.I.A. analyst, counter-terrorism expert and author, Voyage 5110, May 3-10, Athens – Southampton. The voyage, appropriately themed “Spirit of Discovery,” begins in Los Angeles on Jan. 19 when Silver Spirit is set to welcome no more than 540 privileged guests for a 119-day odyssey exploring 60 destinations in 25 countries -- with 11 overnight port visits -- before concluding in Southampton on May 19. (http://www.silversea.com)