Socotra by Hilary Bradt

Socotra by Hilary Bradt

Socotra travel guide. Expert travel tips and holiday advice for the largest island of the Socotra (Soqotra) archipelago off the coast of Yemen. Includes everything from Hadiboh hotels and restaurants to tour operators, eco-campsites, beaches, snorkelling and diving, endemic wildlife and flora including dragon blood trees and desert roses.

Hilary Bradt founded Bradt Travel Guides accidentally in 1974 while backpacking with her then-husband George through South America. Though semi-retired she is still involved with the company, mostly in trying to persuade sceptical staff to publish guides to places no-one has heard of. She assumed that after 30 or so years of roughing it, and an MBE, she had finally earned the right for some comfort, and even managed a stint as lecturer on a luxury ship. But then along came Socotra... Ever since seeing images of Socotra on a David Attenborough programme, Hilary had wanted to go there. Socotra meshed perfectly with her interest in off-the-beaten-track destinations and enthusiasm for wildlife, so visiting - and writing a Bradt guidebook to the island - became a no-brainer. When not travelling, Hilary lives in Devon, UK. Until her death in February 2023, Janice Booth's working life included professional stage management, archaeology, working for a Belgian NGO, compiling logic-puzzle magazines and travelling widely. She drove Land Rovers in Timbuktu, walked with water-buffalo in Tamil Nadu, waded in the breakers of Namibia's Skeleton Coast, and edited many Bradt guides to various far-flung places. Having seen the positive effect that guidebooks can have on countries recovering from war - particularly through personal experience of writing Bradt's Rwanda and editing Bradt's Mali - Janice was keen to visit and write about Socotra in the hope that this guide may also help to encourage visitors. After moving to Devon, she co-authored (with Hilary Bradt) Slow South Devon & Dartmoor and Slow East Devon & the Jurassic Coast.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781804692240
ISBN 10	1804692247
Title	Socotra
Author	Hilary Bradt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bradt Travel Guides
Year published	2024-12-12
Number of pages	192
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.