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ABOUT OUR AUTHORS Rudolf is an award-winning writer and MARYANNE BLACKER An award-winning travel writer and An experienced food and travel writer, Eric is

DONNA DAILEY
RUDOLF ABRAHAM
ERIC GROSSMAN
committed to his goal of celebrating New
photographer, Donna writes for magazines,
photographer, whose books include Walking
Year’s Eve in a different city every year. “I can’t
newspapers, and websites worldwide. She is
in Croatia and The Mountains of Montenegro, as
the author of numerous travel guides and
well as guides to the mountains of eastern
wait to go back to West Texas. From the smallest
inspirational travel books, such as the recent
of towns (artsy Marfais only 1.6 square miles) to
Turkey and Patagonian Chile. He also writes
on Islamic art and architecture. “Where would I
Travelers’ Atlas North America. “For my next big
big cities like El Paso (which has the same
really like to go next? The island of South Georgia
road trip I’m planning to drive the Alaska
population as Boston), the entire area is
would be nice – although there are some remote
during the Great Depression, and I’m keen to
corners of Patagonia calling me back for another
ANTHONY HAM
experience that great road through the
visit.” Author of pages 120–23.
wilderness.” Author of pages 128, 250, 308–11.
ERIC AMRINE Maryanne has a taste for travel, from the cafés Highway. My grandfather helped to build it shrouded in mystery.” Author of pages 132–5.
The empty spaces on maps are what really get
of Paris to the peaks of Peru, via Colombian JENNIFER EVELAND Anthony excited. He likes nothing better than
A Seattle-based writer, photographer, and cow farms and Argentine tango bars. Prior to sharing a campfire with a Tuareg nomad or
musician, Eric made the jump from moving to Peru in 2005, the Australian-born Jennifer will tell you that the best travel looking to the horizon and not seeing another
technology to travel in 1999, and worked writer lived in Paris for nine years and is partial experiences can’t be planned – often they’re living soul. “I recently went to sand-buried
for the luxury travel consortium Virtuoso. He to a coconut macaroon or six. “I’d like to hike the spontaneous moments when things go Araouane (north of Timbuktu), and I’m already
has written Top 10 Seattle, part of Eyewitness Peru’s Ausangate mountain trail, spending my completely off-course. For the bits that do planning an expedition deep into the Algerian
Travel Guide Alaska, and has reviewed dozens days ambling through grassy valleys and ice need planning, she’s co-authored DK’s Top 10 Sahara.” Author of page 198.
of cruise-ship vacations for Expedia, but he fields to see one of the few herding communities Singapore. “I’m currently intrigued by the many
really prefers kayaking in deserted seas and left in the world, and spending my nights snug in private islands around Singapore. Some owners DAMIAN HARPER
wild river rapids. “While I have climbed the eco-friendly lodges at altitudes around 4,500 m.” have built gorgeous holiday villas that they hire
slopes of Mt. Rainier, my dreams include Author of pages 66–7, 71, 140–41, 244–7, out when they’re not in residence. There’s nothing With a degree in Chinese and an instinct for
summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro before its glaciers 256–7, 314–17. like having an entire tropical island to yourself.” travel, Damian has been writing guidebooks
melt.” Author of pages 74–5. Author of page 58. about China for over a decade. “My next trip is
GARY BOWERMAN to return to the Hakka roundhouses of Fujian
ALF ALDERSON CAROLE FRENCH province. The landscape is gorgeous and the
As a Shanghai-based journalist, Gary’s architecture astonishing, while the ambience of
A keen surfer, skier, and mountaineer, Alf searches for offbeat stories have taken him Based in Cyprus, professional travel journalist village life is what trips to China are all about.”
worked as an oil field geologist, ski lift from a gangland prison in San Salvador to Carole is often asked to cover her favorite Author of pages 130–31.
operator, cycle courier, and journalist before the Harbin Ice Festival, and from a Bandung places in Greece, Egypt, Jordan, and the
finding his perfect job – travel writing. sculptor’s homestead to the Qinghai-Tibet Middle East. She loves to travel farther too. HUW HENNESSY
“The place I’d most like to visit I’ve already been railway. ”Libya’s ruins and the vineyards of “For a long time Jamaica was at the top of my
to once – Kamchatka, Russia. I visited in winter Georgia top my ‘to do’ list, but living in China next travel adventure list, but as I’m just back Huw caught his travel bug 25 years ago as a
to ski down the region’s active volcanoes. Next also presents great new opportunities, even in from that dazzling island my next trip has to be tour leader in South America. “My earliest
time I’d like to go in summer and see the grizzly tried-and-trusted cities like Beijing or Xi’an.” to see Belize’s amazing Barrier Reef.” memories there are of vultures and the smell
bears – it has the largest population of them in Author of pages 102–5, 294–7. Author of pages 100–1. of sugar-cane fuel in Brazil.” Recently Huw has
the world.” Author of pages 212–15. spent much time in Devon training for
PHILIP BRIGGS JENNY GEAL marathons. “I’d love to go back to the Amazon, to
CHRISTOPHER BAKER flop in a hammock with a book and just gaze at
A specialist in Africa, Philip wrote what were the expanse of water.” Author of pages 216–7.
then – and in some cases still are – the only
dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, NICK INMAN
Malawi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, and
Rwanda. The author of DK’s Top 10 Cape Town Nick has contributed to 50 travel guides on
and co-author of Eyewitness Travel Guide Spain and France. He is always sent to cover
Kenya, he recently spent time exploring the the same few places – the obvious
rain forests of Madagascar and deserts of destinations and world-famous sights. Despite
Egypt. “I am currently looking for a pretext to receiving so much attention, these countries
track mandrills and gorillas in Gabon and are packed with little known curiosities.
Cameroon.” Author of pages 162–5, 194–7, Jenny spent 6 months of her languages “Rather than go to spectacular new places, I
An adventurer by heart, Christopher P. Baker, 252–3, 286. degree working hard at seeing as much of prefer to look at familiar places afresh to see
the Lowell Thomas 2008 Travel Journalist of Mexico as possible, and has regularly returned what surprises I can find.” Author of page 59.
the Year, has been a professional travel writer PAUL CLAMMER to Latin America. She has eaten her way
and photographer for three decades and has around South East Asia and loved every DILWYN JENKINS
written for many of the world’s leading Paul started life as a molecular biologist, but minute of a recent safari in the Selous,
publications. “Although Antarctica, South Africa, in a gap between jobs picked up his rucksack Tanzania. “I hope to head for the pristine Adriatic A veteran globetrotter with 33 years of travel
and Chile are on my ‘must visit soon’ list, my real and never quite managed to return to the lab. beaches of Montenegro before the world and several books under his well-worn belt,
dream is to return to Cuba, where I’m never Having worked as a tour guide in Morocco, discovers this tiny country’s appeal. I work for Dilwyn specializes in South America, with
happier than when relaxing in a rocking chair Turkey, and Pakistan, he is now a full-time a specialist tour operator and take every particular emphasis on Peru, the Amazon,
with a mojito and a fine cigar.” Author of pages guidebook author. “When I’m not at my opportunity to write; I’ve always thought that remote wildlife regions, and sustainable
161, 186–7, 199, 218–19, 292. Wiltshire home, I’m usually heading for the the life of a travel journalist seems like a pretty development within tribal communities.
dustier climes of Africa and the greater good one!” Author of pages 40–1. “My idea of relaxing is another visit to an area of
JOSEPH BINDLOSS Middle East.” Author of pages 10–13, 298-9. lush protected rain forest, probably in the jungles
GEOFF GROESBECK of central Peru.” Author of pages 50–53.
Joe caught the travel bug in the early 1990s JANE CORNWELL
on a grand tour of Asia, and he’s been Geoff writes and lectures extensively on JORDAN LANCASTER
jumping onto trains, boats, and planes ever Jane is an Australian-born, London-based Bolivia’s remote and beautiful Chiquitania.
since. When he’s not roaming around India, writer, journalist and broadcaster specializing Author and specialist contributor, his works Jordan first boarded a plane when she was
Nepal, and Southeast Asia for various in arts and music. She is a World Music critic have been translated into 12 languages. A three weeks old and has been on the go ever
guidebooks and magazines, he writes dining for London's Evening Standard newspaper leading researcher on the Jesuit missions of since. After growing up in Canada, she lived
and travel guides in London. “If I could be and an arts correspondent for The Australian Chiquitos, his writing has appeared in some of and studied in Italy for 11 years. She is the
anywhere in the world this very second, it would newspaper. “My next travel adventure will the world’s best-known publications. His author of In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Cultural
have to be India – either drifting along the be sashaying around the salsa clubs of Cali recent works include guides to Bolivia and History of Italy, and today works in London as a
Brahmaputra River in Assam, or sipping butter in Colombia, a city of painted bridges, Mexico. “My next destination? A trip to the secret translator and interpreter. “I’ve covered a lot of
tea high up in the Himalayas.” Author of pages cobblestone plazas, and the occasional archives of the Vatican.” Author of pages 32–5, ground. Next stop: carnival in Salvador de
70, 200–1. skyscaper.” Author of pages 56–7, 62–5. 84–5, 86–9, 152-3, 176–9, 204-5, 287. Bahia!” Author of pages 72–3.

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