Episode 01 : John Gimlette

Award-winning travel writer John Gimlette joins us to discuss travel writing, his perspective on travel, and his many adventures in places such as Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and Guyana.

We focus on several of his books, including Wild Coast, about his travels in Guyana, Elephant Complex, about Sri Lanka, and his latest, The Garden of Mars, featuring many wonderful tales of his travels in Madagascar. John brings lesser-known destinations to life, and his witty and erudite style is accessible and inspiring and will ignite your wanderlust.

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John Gimlette is the author of six books: At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig, Theatre of Fish, Panther Soup, Wild Coast, Elephant Complex and The Gardens of Mars. In 1997, he won the Shiva Naipaul Prize for travel writing, and, since then has also contributed articles and photographs to a wide range of magazines and broadsheet newspapers. His first two books were nominated by The New York Times as being among the '100 Notable Books of the Year', and Wild Coast won the Dolman Travel Book Prize for 2012. It was also named by The Daily Telegraph as one on the ‘Twenty Best Travel Books of all Time’. John Gimlette’s travels have taken him to places as diverse as Eritrea and Laos, through most of South America, and to over eighty countries in between. He is married and lives in London.