Traveller into unknown lands - Hilary Bradt

This interview with Hilary Bradt will cover her experiences travelling to remote and less known locations – by hitchhiking and bus – before the days of mass travel.

She will reflect on the experience of starting a guidebook series introducing travellers to places less visited, from Madagascar to Iraq, North Korea, Albania and most recently Socotra, the Yemeni island in the Indian Ocean renowned for its indigenous plants and wildlife.

The interview will also cover her thoughts on sustainable travel in today’s very different environment.

About the speaker

Hilary Bradt in conversation with Sara White of East regional committee and Explorers against Extinction.

Hilary is the founder of Bradt Travel Guides, a publisher which became an increasingly visible presence in the travel guide book world starting in the mid-1970s. From 1972, Bradt spent 18 months backpacking from Colombia to Tierra del Fuego and then Argentina and Brazil with her then husband George, with whom she subsequently co-founded Bradt Travel Guides.

Their first book was Backpacking along Ancient Ways in Peru and Bolivia. The Bradt guides began by covering exotic or off-beat destinations, such as Rwanda and Albania, and have continued to target this niche, frequently publishing guides to countries not yet covered by any other travel publisher.

Hilary is a long-standing member of the British Guild of Travel Writers, from which she received a Lifetime Achievement Award. She was awarded an MBE in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to the tourist industry and to charity.

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This event has been organised by the East regional committee.

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