travel publishing founded 1974 headquarters chalfont st. peter buckinghamshire united kingdom key people hilary bradt products travel guides website 1 bradt travel guides is a publisher of travel guides founded by hilary bradt who was awarded an mbe in 2008 for services to the tourist industry and to charity . 1 the first bradt guide was written in 1974 by hilary and her husband george on a river barge on a tributary of the amazon 2 and has since grown into a leading boutique publisher with growth particularly in the past decade . the publisher is based in chalfont st. peter in buckinghamshire england but also co publishes with globe pequot in guilford connecticut in the united states . the guides have been cited by the independent as covering parts of the world other travel publishers don t reach . 2 the guides may cover countries of the world normally covered in guides but often have detailed guides to parts of africa asia and latin america which traditionally have not been widely covered or did not have a long history of tourism . the guides give a brief summary of the history of the country or city that lies at the heart of the book . each guide then covers the tourism basics such as geography and climate wildlife languages and culture healthcare and media . subsequent chapters are then usually arranged on a geographical basis addressing the main cities or regions of the country in systematic order . they may have some details on smaller towns and villages not normally mentioned in guides or may have detailed case studies on culture or beliefs specific to the country with which it deals . according to michael palin ; bradt guides are expertly written and longer on local detail than any others . 2 bradt books often provides information on topics related to the area of travel but not specifically about tourist or travel amenities . for example the somewhat awkwardly named the amazon the bradt travel guide dedicates 60 pages to the area s natural history more space than any other chapter including practical information and the individual country chapters . 3 more recently the bradt guides have begun publishing specific books such as wildlife in places such as the galapagos islands and madagascar an island in which bradt is an expert . 4 5 they have also begun an eccentric series which are detailed insights into some of the cities in the united kingdom including london edinburgh and oxford as well as on the countries of the united kingdom france and australia . the guides are often written by writers who have had hands on experience within the country or region they are writing about . they may also be written somewhat unconventionally compared with normal tourist guides . bradt books often relay information about the nature of the local people based on the experiences of the author in various cities . the health chapters are written in collaboration with a well travelled doctor jane wilson howarth or felicity nicholson . contents 1 countries areas covered by the guides 1.1 africa 1.2 americas and caribbean 1.3 wildlife 1.4 europe 1.4.1 european city guides 1.5 asia and australia 2 references 3 external links countries areas covered by the guides edit africa edit africa overland algeria angola benin botswana burkina faso cameroon cape verde congo democratic republic of the congo eritrea ethiopia gabon and s o tom and pr ncipe the gambia ghana kenya madagascar malawi mauritius incl . rodrigues and r union mozambique namibia niger nigeria rwanda seychelles sierra leone sudan tanzania and northern uganda zambia zimbabwe americas and caribbean edit amazon argentina bolivia cayman islands chile including trekking book colombia costa rica ecuador climbing and hiking falkland islands guyana haiti panama paraguay peru and bolivia backpacking and trekking united states usa rail eccentric america and eccentric california uruguay venezuela wildlife edit antarctica arctic british isles galapagos islands madagascar southern africa your child abroad europe edit albania armenia and nagorno karabagh azores bosnia and herzegovina canary islands croatia cyprus northern czech republic estonia faroe islands france eccentric georgia hungary latvia lithuania macedonia montenegro st. helena ascension island and tristan da cunha serbia slovenia switzerland rail road and lake ukraine united kingdom eccentric european city guides edit baltic capitals tallinn riga vilnius and kaliningrad belgrade bratislava budapest cork dubrovnik edinburgh eccentric helsinki kiev lille ljubljana london eccentric paris lille and brussels oxford riga river thames spitsbergen tallinn vilnius asia and australia edit bangladesh china yunnan great wall of china iran iraq kabul kyrgyzstan maldives mongolia north korea oman palestine with jerusalem sri lanka syria tasmania tibet turkmenistan references edit the london gazette supplement no. 58729 . p. 14 . 14 june 2008 . a b c butler stuart 2006 . benin . guilford connecticut bradt travel guides the globe pequot press . roger harris and peter hutchison 2007 . the amazon the bradt travel guide 3rd ed . . bradt travel guides . hilary bradt 2007 . madagascar travel guide 9th ed . . bradt travel guides . nick garbutt hilary bradt and derek schuurman 2001 . madagascar wildlife guide 2nd ed . . bradt travel guides . external links edit official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bradt travel guides & oldid 647096442 categories travel guide books navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 13 11 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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