On Travel, Fatherhood and Trading the Amazon Basin for Backcountry Britain – Interview for Intrepid Times
Sometimes, you know, as travel writers we airbrush a lot of things. We pretend our job is the dream when […]
Latest Books Out
2019 is nearly out and as the year speeds towards conclusion, I realise that several new titles I have contributed […]
Latin America in the Extreme: My Top Adventure Travel Articles for Kimkim
Over the last year or so I’ve been doing a lot of work with leading adventure travel operators Kimkim to […]
South America: Interlude
I don’t expect anyone who drops in occasionally to this site to make sense of the daily plans and monthly […]
Peru for Foodies: Travels Through Peru’s Distinctive Culinary Regions – Article for Lonely Planet
I suppose it is not for nothing that I have the protagonist of Roebuck, 16th century South American gentleman adventurer […]
The Amazandes: Making In-Roads Into Peru’s Wildernesses
There are a fair few nations that lend themselves to being termed ‘World’s Most Addictive Wilderness”. I have not (yet) […]
New Travel Books Out!
A round-up of books published of late that I’ve co-authored or contributed to is, I fear, a little overdue… Already […]
Skip the Crowds: My Tips on Tour Group Dodging in the Andes and Amazon for Wanderlust
It’s not all of us (let’s face it, it’s not that many of us) that really want to be inundated […]
Interview with A Lover of Books: on Roebuck, Writing Techniques and Inspirations
It was my pleasure to be interviewed recently by the lovely creator of the A Lover of Books blog on […]
On Old Ships, Sugar Mill Enslavement and Man-Eating Tribes: How my Debut Novel Became a Reality – Article for British Guild of Travel Writers
It does look, from the homepage particularly, like I’m getting egocentric (two pictures of the first six with my image, […]
Spilling the Beans: Exploring Ecuador’s Chocolate Industry – Article for Lonely Planet
I have always been a chocoholic and once I sampled my first square of dark arriba Ecuadorian chocolate there […]
The Amazon in Fact and in Fiction – Article for British Guild of Travel Writers
The Amazon Basin is a fickle and defiant thing – even its facts are hard to grasp, and its fictions […]
Luke and his Words... 