Richard Knight is an award-winning travel writer: a former Young Travel Writer of the Year. He is the author of The Millennium Guide and Trekking in the Moroccan Atlas (both also from Trailblazer) and has contributed to several other guidebooks. He has written for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Observer, the Daily Mail, the Independent and many other publications in Britain and abroad. Currently editor of the Gap Year Magazine, he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.