Snakes Alive and Other Travel Writing [Kindle Edition]

Mike Gerrard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 9, 2010

Mike Gerrard's travel writing has won awards in the UK and USA, and been published in The Times, Time Out, The Washington Post, Wanderlust, The Independent on Sunday, The Express, The Sydney Sun-Herald, The Guardian, and many other publications.

In this collection of his travel writing, his award-winning pieces about eating snake in China, taking a taxi ride through troubled Belfast, and walking the hair-raising levadas of Madeira are all included. Also here are other evocative accounts of his experiences:

* camel-trekking in the Sinai Desert
* helping to drink a bar dry in Guyana
* dodging orangutan dung in Sumatra
* canoeing in Venezuela's Orinoco Delta
* touring Paris at night on a bike
* discovering Viking toilet habits
* going to a country that doesn't exist

And capturing the atmosphere of Jamaica, the South Pacific, Armenia, Georgia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Athens in these 56 travel pieces that add up to 71,000 words and 246 pages in the printed edition.

Julia-Jean Andrews on Smashwords:
"I've always enjoyed a good travel book and this is one of the best. You can dip into individual chapters and let Mike Gerrard take you around the world. I also enjoyed how Mike describes the various local foods...Well...Apart from the snake!"

Visit Mike Gerrard's website:
www.mikegerrard.com

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Mike Gerrard was born in St Helens in northern England, and after two false starts as an accountant and then as a teacher, moved to London. There he worked for the literary agent Deborah Rogers before leaving to pursue his own writing career. Since then he has written or contributed to over 30 travel guidebooks, been published in newspapers and magazines worldwide, written three radio plays for the BBC, presented a BBC Radio 4 programme about Egypt, and publishes the Pacific Coast Highway Travel website: www.Pacific-Coast-Highway-Travel.com. He also recently completed his first crime novel. He divides his time between Cambridgeshire in England and Green Valley in Arizona, with his wife the travel writer Donna Dailey.

Product Details

• File Size: 281 KB
• Print Length: 252 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1456445391
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Blue Sky Books (December 9, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004FPZ6CI
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #192,167 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #94 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Travel > Caribbean

More About the Author

I am an award-winning travel writer, contributing to newspapers, magazines and websites worldwide. A collection of my travel writing, Snakes Alive and Other Travel Writing, was recently published by Blue Sky Books.

I also write about food and drink for the travel pages, covering vineyards in Greece and New Zealand, breweries in Belgium and Britain, restaurants in Paris, a chocolate shop in Lyon, the biggest wine cellar in the world (in Florida), interviewing an English sommelier in Paris, and sipping my way through the Champagne region of France and the sherry bodegas of Jerez (no spitting). I invented the Time for Food series for Thomas Cook (purely so that I could go to places like Paris, Venice and Amsterdam and get paid for eating and drinking there).

Combining music and travel is another love: I have written pieces about Bob Marley, the Beatles, Elvis Presley and Hank Williams.

More exotic travels have taken me camel-trekking in the Sinai Desert (right), walking in the Great Rift Valley, learning to jive in Barcelona, looking for orang-utans in Sumatra, staying with a farming family in China and sampling a naturist holiday on Crete (photos available at a price).

I have also written or contributed to over 30 guidebooks, especially on Greece, Paris and Amsterdam.

In addition, I've written three radio plays for the BBC, presented a half-hour radio travel programme about Egypt, written fiction and humour for men's magazines and even written an erotic novel. I may be the only writer to have contributed both to Mayfair (I was in the same issue as Bill Bryson) and to The Baptist Times. Not to mention a few minutes of the UK's favourite TV soap, Coronation Street, when my father was a scriptwriter on the programme.

I also write regularly now for the internet, providing online city and regional guides for Weissmann, who publish travel guides for the travel trade in the USA. I'm the Feature Writer on the UK and Ireland at Suite101, providing one article every week. My wife Donna Dailey and I now also publish and write our own travel content websites about America's Pacific Coast Highway and about Greece.