Some of My Books

Of course I wrote or contributed to many Lonely Planet guidebooks and other books over the years, South-East Asia on a Shoestring and India are probably the two I’m most proud of.

Bad Lands
Lonely Planet published Bad Lands – my foray along George W Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’ – Iran, Iraq and North Korea – in 2007. I also reported from six other bad and not so bad countries – Afghanistan, Albania, Burma (Myanmar), Cuba, Libya and Saudi Arabia. In 2014 I reported on how things had changed in those countries over the following seven year. Sadly 10 more years down the line and in most cases things have got worse, Albania – which I visited in September 2024 is one place where things have definitely improved. I’ll summarise the other changes soon.

 

 

 

 

In Her Footsteps
In 2020 Lonely Planet published In Her Footsteps, linking notable women and places to visit where you can feel the connection. I wrote up Jan Morris and, of course, Harry’s Bar in Venice. I better write something about the four other women I wrote about, plus three women who did not make the cut! Coming soon.

 

 

 

 

 

Dark Lands
I found Bad Lands so interesting that a follow up – Dark Lands in 2013 – was inevitable. This time I went to Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Israel & Palestine, Nauru, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe and I’ve found plenty of Dark Places to blog about in subsequent years, including my Dark Lands Reading List.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Travel
It’s short and sweet, less than 100 pages on why I travel and originally published by Melbourne University Press. Today On Travel is available in a 2020 edition from Hachette.