Taking the Risk
My adventures in travel and publishing
$71.87
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2024
Summary
An 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.
Taking the Risk is Hilary Bradt’s engaging, insightful, amusing and sometimes alarming memoir about serendipitous adventures in travel and publishing. A tra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804691847 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804691844 |
| Author: | Hilary Bradt |
| Publisher: | Bradt Travel Guides |
| Imprint: | Bradt Travel Guides |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 780g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
| Series: | Bradt Travel Guides (Travel Literature) |
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Critics Review
‘I loved this book: a must-have ticket to a life of adventure’ - Matthew Parris’Pioneering and irrepressible’ - Jonathan Scott’Hilary Bradt is my inspiration and benchmark for how to make travel really count’ - Kate Humble’Honest, unvarnished and full of personality’ - Rick Steves’A fascinating and entertaining book. the more you read, the more amazed you become’ - Devon Life
Hilary Bradt
Hilary Bradt’s career as an occupational therapist ended when potential employers noticed that the time taken off for travel exceeded the periods of employment. In 1963, she hitch-hiked to and around the Middle East. In 1969, she spent six months travelling from San Francisco to Rio de Janeiro. With her former husband George, she self-published her first guidebook in 1974 during an extended journey throughout South America, thus founding Bradt Travel Guides. Travels in Africa in 1974-77 resulted in a backpacking guide to Africa, followed by four more to South America. By 1980, she was established as a publisher, winning IPG/Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year that decade. For the first 25 years she combined writing guide books and running the company with leading adventure and natural history tours to South America, Africa and Madagascar. Her contributions to tourism have resulted in an MBE among other major awards.
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