Heading South

“Giant crocs, commando publicans, the ghosts of Burke and Wills. Tim’s long and winding rail trek is a perfect escape.” –John Birmingham, author of He Died with a Felafel in His Hand“Braving crocodiles, Yellow Fever (a Vietnamese-run cafe, not the disease) and rail replacement buses, Tim takes us on an epic 7,000-kilometre voyage across Australia by train. Tim’s engaging portrait of Australia’s people, places, history and great trains is guaranteed to give you itchy feet …” –Mark Smith, The Man in Seat 61

Tim Richards is a freelance travel writer whose work has appeared in publications around the world, including Lonely Planet’s guidebooks. He fell into travel writing after living and teaching in Egypt and Poland, and is especially drawn to the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. He’s a light-packing obsessive, and loves chasing down a story with a historical angle. He lives in Melbourne’s lively central business district with his novelist wife, Narrelle M. Harris.

• Tim contributes travel articles regularly to Traveller, the travel section of the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers.
• He’s the author of travel books including The Kick of Stalin’s Cow, about Poland, and the fantasy adventure novel Mind the Gap, and writes regularly about travel at his Patreon site.