Taking the Risk - engaging memoir about serendipitous adventures in travel and publishing from a travel industry trail-blazer. Hilary Bradt looks back on 50 years of escapades, surprises, mishaps, disasters. and success. Contains stories from six decades of hitchhiking, tour leading and living in the USA, South America, the Falklands and Africa.
South Devon and Dartmoor (Slow Travel) guide. Holiday tips and insider advice featuring Plymouth highlights, local restaurants, pubs and accommodation, national parks and reserves. Also covers Dartmouth, Torquay and the English Riviera, Dartmoor National Park, the South West Coast Path, beaches, cycling, boat trips and steam train routes.
Slow North and mid-Devon - expert local tips and holiday advice featuring interesting places to stay, the best cream teas and pubs, cycling, walking the South West Coast path, surfing, beaches, hiking, wildlife and outdoor activities. Includes Clovelly, Braunton, Ilfracombe, Lundy Island, Barnstaple, northwest Exmoor, the Tarka Line and Exe valley.
Hilary Bradt's classic account of a journey through Ireland on horseback in the 1980s published for the first time in a single volume.In 1984, Hilary Bradt achieved an ambition from her pony-mad childhood to undertake a long-distance ride. This warm, funny and heart-wrenching account centres on the growing bond between the author and her Connemara ponies, Mollie and Peggy. Using her experience of horsepacking in Peru with saddlebags imported from America, she and Mollie set forth with no decent maps, and only a vague idea of the route. The many challenges and obstacles they face include impassable rivers, bogs, stone walls, and the author's own shyness. The book is also a portrait of a vanished rural Ireland before the Celtic Tiger era, built up from descriptions and conversations with local people.The journey takes Bradt and her ponies a thousand miles south from county Mayo, around the peninsulas of Kerry and Cork, and inland towards Waterford. ‘I've never tried hitchhiking with a horse before,' comments the author, faced with the challenge of getting across the River Shannon. ‘It's not easy!' Originally published in two separate volumes, Connemara Mollie and Dingle Peggy , this brand new edition brings the whole story together for the first time, with additional, previously unpublished photographs.
Socotra travel guide: expert travel tips and holiday advice on the largest island of the Socotra (Soqotra) archipelago off the coast of Yemen. Including everything from Hadibo hotels and restaurants to tour operators, eco- campsites, beaches, snorkelling and diving, wildlife, birdlife and flora including dragon's blood trees and desert roses.
Slow East Devon Travel Guide - holiday tips and local advice including accommodation, pubs and restaurants, local food and crafts, Exeter, seaside towns, Exmouth, Sidmouth and coastal walks and beaches. Also covered are the Blackdown Hills, River Otter, watersports and activities, Lyme Regis and the Jurassic Coast, wildlife and birdwatching.
Connemara Mollie - Holiday reads and travel literature by Hilary Bradt about her riding adventures in western Ireland with Mollie, her equine partner. Covering routes in Counties Galway, Mayo, Kerry and Clare, Bradt recounts encounters with local people, beautiful landscapes, wildlife and rural history, and tragic events along the way.
Madagascar's isolation means most of its mammals, birds, and plants exist nowhere else on earth. This guide showcases the best of the island with details of all the sights included in tour operators' itineraries; trips along the Route Nationale 7, around Nosy Be, days trips around Antananarivo, and tours to the east and southwest of the country. Detailed maps include 'the top spots' - the six places most favoured by tour operators, and a birders' map identifies the island's key locations to spot birds. An authoritative chapter on conservation discusses many of the islands projects and outlines how visitors can help. With full colour photographs throughout, this handy book also acts as a field guide to lemurs, chameleons and a host of other exotic plants and animals.
Tourism in Madagascar has leapt forward as a result of the cartoon film and media coverage of its culture and wildlife. The tourism infrastructure has been improved, with better roads and new luxury hotels, without compromising the focus on ecotourism. The world’s fourth largest island now appeals to a broad spectrum of visitors, from those seeking hard adventure to others content to enjoy the beautiful beaches and accessible national parks.
A thorough travel guide, brimming with character, for bother independent visitors and those on organised tours to Madagascar.