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.
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.
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. With her former husband George, she self-published her first guidebook in 1974 during an extended journey through South America, thus founding Bradt Travel Guides. A backpacking guide to Africa followed. 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 in-depth knowledge of these places has brought her numerous lecture engagements and commissions for travel articles. She now lives in semi-retirement in Devon, indulging her interest in sculpting as well as writing regular press articles and Bradt books. She has received an MBE for contributions to tourism, the British Guild of Travel Writers' Lifetime Achievement Award and the Travel Media Awards' Special Contribution Award. For more, visit hilarybradt.com.
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CONTENTS Foreword by Kate Humble Prologue PART 1 YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES Chapter 1 Early days Interlude Hitchhiking with Val Chapter 2 Latin America Interlude Hitchhiking with George PART 2 SOUTH AMERICA 1973–74 Chapter 3 The journey begins Chapter 4 Ecuador and the Galápagos Interlude The frog lady Chapter 5 Peru Chapter 6 Bolivia Interlude The Little Yellow Book Chapter 7 Western Argentina and Chile Interlude A week in Wales Chapter 8 The Falkland Islands Chapter 9 The Southern Cone Interlude Wicked! Chapter 10 Buenos Aires and on to Rio Interlude A day in May in BA PART 3 AFRICA 1976 Chapter 11 South Africa Interlude Joseph Chapter 12 Lesotho Interlude A Swaziland dilemma Chapter 13 Rhodesia and Malawi Interlude Learning to listen Chapter 14 Madagascar Interlude The story of Bedo Chapter 15 Zanzibar and Tanzania Chapter 16 Burundi, Rwanda and Zaire Interlude An act of kindness Chapter 17 Uganda and Kenya Chapter 18 Ethiopia Chapter 19 Sudan and Egypt Interlude A nicely scarred woman PART 4 BECOMING A PUBLISHER Chapter 20 Bradt Enterprises Interlude Once more in Mexico Chapter 21 The end of the seventies Chapter 22 The 1980s and beyond Chapter 23 Tales of a tour leader Interlude A perfect storm Chapter 24 Seeking the bubble reputation… Epilogue
CONTENTS Foreword by Kate Humble Prologue PART 1 YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES Chapter 1 Early days Interlude Hitchhiking with Val Chapter 2 Latin America Interlude Hitchhiking with George PART 2 SOUTH AMERICA 1973–74 Chapter 3 The journey begins Chapter 4 Ecuador and the Galápagos Interlude The frog lady Chapter 5 Peru Chapter 6 Bolivia Interlude The Little Yellow Book Chapter 7 Western Argentina and Chile Interlude A week in Wales Chapter 8 The Falkland Islands Chapter 9 The Southern Cone Interlude Wicked! Chapter 10 Buenos Aires and on to Rio Interlude A day in May in BA PART 3 AFRICA 1976 Chapter 11 South Africa Interlude Joseph Chapter 12 Lesotho Interlude A Swaziland dilemma Chapter 13 Rhodesia and Malawi Interlude Learning to listen Chapter 14 Madagascar Interlude The story of Bedo Chapter 15 Zanzibar and Tanzania Chapter 16 Burundi, Rwanda and Zaire Interlude An act of kindness Chapter 17 Uganda and Kenya Chapter 18 Ethiopia Chapter 19 Sudan and Egypt Interlude A nicely scarred woman PART 4 BECOMING A PUBLISHER Chapter 20 Bradt Enterprises Interlude Once more in Mexico Chapter 21 The end of the seventies Chapter 22 The 1980s and beyond Chapter 23 Tales of a tour leader Interlude A perfect storm Chapter 24 Seeking the bubble reputation… Epilogue
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