Taking the Risk by Hilary Bradt

Taking the Risk by Hilary Bradt

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. 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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ISBN 13	9781804691847
ISBN 10	1804691844
Title	Taking the Risk
Author	Hilary Bradt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bradt Travel Guides
Year published	2024-05-01
Number of pages	336
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