Aimed at travellers to the tropics, mountainous regions and other remote areas of the developing world, this book gives advice on what to expect when you get to your destination, how to treat bites and stings, and general first aid.'
Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth's passion for wildlife started with creepy-crawlies when she was a toddler and led to smuggling roadkill into the house, much to her mother's disgust. She prefers flowers. Jane left London suburbia to bag a zoology degree in Plymouth before setting off on an overland trip to Nepal. That expedition gave her a new mission: to work towards improving the lot of the poor. After qualifying as a parasitologist (from Oxford University) and as a physician (Southampton University) she spent eleven years working on various child survival projects in remote corners of Asia including for USAID.
These days she lives in Cambridgeshire with her husband, teenage sons, a lop and a pigmy hamster. At the moment she works as a family physician, as medical director of a travel clinic, and as a guest lecturer at several universities. As a balance to clinical work she writes life-affirming fiction with exotic themes. Jane already has three travel health guides in print as well as two travel memoirs, about Madagascar and Nepal. She continues to write extensively on travel and health including for British national newspapers (The Independent, The Guardian) and other national and international publications. She has written double-spread health features for Wanderlust travel magazine since issue one.
