Insight Guide: Pakistan provides everything you'll ever need in a guidebook. It is an inspiring background read, an invaluable on-the-spot companion and a superior souvenir of your visit. Evocative photography-Insight Guides are renowned for their great pictures, which vividly convey a sense of everyday life. Illuminating text-Expert writers bring to life Pakistan's history, culture, arts, politics and, above all, the variety of its people. Incisive evaluations-From Karachi to the Khyber Pass, Punjab to Peshawar, Sindh to Swat, and the Karakoram to the Hindu Kush, it's all here. Detailed maps-All major sites are highlighted on specially drawn maps. Full listings-All the travel details, hotels, eating places and phone numbers you'll need.
Alan first began travelling in earnest in the early 1980s when he set off around the shores of the Mediterranean with little money in his pocket but with an archaeological trowel in hand. He spent much of the next three years drifting between excavations and picking up casual work as he found it along the way. By the end of the '80s his horizons had extended to Central Asia where his passion for trekking first germinated. These early experiences, of archaeology and trekking, would later combine to shape his contributions to two Insight Guides, "Pakistan" (First edition 1990) and "The Silk Road" (2008).
Alan first visited Morocco during the death-throes of the Hippie era, while on his Eurorail year, towards the end of the 1970s. He began trekking in the Atlas Mountains nearly a decade later, now some 25 years ago. Since then he has returned to Morocco many times and has trekked extensively in both the High Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains. On this basis, he successfully approached Trailblazer Publications with a proposal to write "Moroccan Atlas - The Trekking Guide" (2010). Alan continues to return to Morocco often where he keeps himself busy by exploring new routes for inclusion in the forthcoming second edition.
