For your travel bookshelf this week...
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It's that time of year again... For over 25 years, our New Travel Writer of the Year Competition has been seeking out and championing new writing talent. Previous winners and finalists in the competition have gone on to see their work published in newspapers, travel magazines and books. Once again part of the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, the leading book trade awards for travel writers, this is an unrivalled opportunity for unpublished travel writers. THE THEME The theme for this...
A note from Hilary Bradt... In 1999, Janice Booth and I travelled to the Isles of Scilly hoping to see the total eclipse of the sun. We were lucky: it was the only place in the British Isles that had clear sky at the moment of totality. We were hooked. A guide to the two forthcoming eclipses in that Bradt-friendly continent, Africa, was already in the pipeline, and Janice’s story, reproduced below, was published as a prologue. Janice died in 2024. If moved by some event or episode in her...
July in Review July has flown by here at Bradt... This month we welcomed new editions of Angola and Kyrgyzstan to our catalogue, while over on the blog we rounded up some of the world's most unique places to visit, shared our guide to planning a gorilla trekking safari from Kigali and highlighted some of the most beautiful places in Madagascar. Our Photographing the British Isles competition has now closed, and we're looking forward to revealing the winners during an evening with William Gray...