Barbados

Daniel Austin took degrees at University College London and at the University of Cambridge before becoming a travel writer, editor and tour leader. Across two decades, he has published a number of travel and wildlife books with Bradt (e.g. Madagascar, Madagascar Wildlife and The Travel Quiz Book), both as an author and updater. He has also edited and project-managed other Bradt books, including editing the centenary edition of the legendary South American Handbook. His expertise in the Americas also extends to working as work as a guest lecturer and naturalist for a series of expedition cruises in the Caribbean and around South America’s coasts. He is also well known as a Madagascar specialist - a fascination arising from his childhood passion for nature - visiting the country for several months each year to lead group tours, guide on small-ship expedition cruises, conduct research and photograph the unique wildlife.

Faeze Shad originally hails from northwestern Iran, where she graduated from Tabriz University as a geologist, before working for several years as quality controller for a mining company. She had always dreamed of travelling the world, and relocated to take a postgraduate degree in tourism management at Yasar University on Turkey’s Aegean coast. She was editorial researcher for the special centenary edition of Bradt’s South American Handbook, published in 2025. She also works for Bradt as a picture researcher on the publisher’s UK titles.