To Oldly Go

Jennifer Barclay is a writer and editor, specializing in adventurous travel stories. She co-edited the travel anthologies AWOL: Tales for Travel-Inspired Minds (Vintage Canada) and The Irresponsible Traveler: Tales of Scrapes and Narrow Escapes (Bradt). She is the author of two travel memoirs, Falling in Honey: Life and Love on a Greek Island (Summersdale UK, Sourcebooks US; translated into Polish, Bulgarian and Latvian) and previously Meeting Mr Kim: How I Went to Korea and Learned to Love Kimchi (Summersdale UK, Wakefield ANZ). She has also compiled the gift books A Literary Feast, The Traveler's Friend and The Walker's Friend (Summersdale). She writes articles for newspapers and magazines and has appeared on national radio and TV. Since 2011 she has called the tiny Greek island of Tilos home. Colin Thubron is an award-winning master of travel writing and novelist. His first books were about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he traveled in the Soviet Union, pursued by the KGB. These early experiences were followed by his best-known travel books: on China, Central Asia and Siberia, including Shadow of the Silk Road. He lives in London. Diana Moran is an all-round television and radio personality known as the 'Green Goddess' and part of the original team who in February 1983 launched BBC Breakfast TV. Her successful career as fitness guru, author and broadcaster specializing in well-being, health and aging issues has spanned four decades. She is an experienced and humorous motivational speaker. Having traveled the globe for over fifty years, writing and broadcasting about his journeys, John Carter is retired. Or, rather, he continues to travel and write, but for pleasure not profit. He is currently compiling an anthology of 'traveler's tales'--all true, mostly unbelievable--and working on a documentary project for BBC Radio. Dervla Murphy was 74 when she undertook this journey. Now in her eighties, she continues to travel the world and is passionate about politics, conservation, bicycling and beer. Her first book, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, was published in 1965 and she has won worldwide praise for over twenty books since. Brian Jackman is a freelance journalist and author with a lifelong passion for travel and wildlife. Today his work appears mostly in The Daily Telegraph and Travel Africa. Best known as Britain's foremost writer on African wildlife safaris, his African books include The Marsh Lions (with Jonathan Scott) and most recently Savannah Diaries. Matthew Parris worked for the Foreign Office and the Conservative Research Department before serving as MP for West Derbyshire. He now writes as a columnist and occasional travel writer for The Times, broadcasts for radio and television and is the author of Inca Kola, recounting his backpacking adventures in Peru. Roger Bray has been writing about travel for over 40 years. A former travel editor of London's Evening Standard and frequent broadcaster, he is the joint author of Flight to the Sun, a definitive history of the post war tourism boom and has won a number of awards for his writing.

Foreword: Oldies on the Move Dervla Murphy
Introduction Hilary Bradt

A PHYSICAL CHALLENGE
The Hat Anne Sigmon
Via Ferrata Hazel Pennington
Taking the Plunge Matthew Parris
Atlas Traverse Chris Wright
A Grave Matter James McCarthy
Trek China Challenge Diana Moran
Canoeing the Severn Libby James
Solo Cycle around the World Ann Wilson

WILDLIFE-WATCHING
Yukon's Ice Bears Brian Jackman
Lion Walking Joyce West
Parahawking in Nepal Mary Jean Pramik
Rafting the Barrenlands Geoff Hinchliffe
My Creaking Bones Debbie Parrott
A Meeting with Ganesh Penny Turner

RISKS, SCRAPES AND STRANGE JOURNEYS
The Last Stronghold Colin Thubron
On a Road to Italy Elizabeth Pimm
Gently Down the Stream John Carter
Relic of the Raj Jane Wilson-Howarth
Final Journey in Sierra Leone Ed Bridge
Danger in Diyarbakir Eithne Nightingale
No Risk, No Fun Roger Bray
The Bad Luck Pagoda Keith Baillie

DARING TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
Thumbs Up Hilary Bradt
Plodding to the Far Northwest Rosemary Fretwell
A Horse Trek in Bhutan Sue Bathurst
The Silver Steamers Sarah Pope
Across the Desert on Camelback Robert Spence
The Bishop's Cloak Pamela Hardyment
Return to Kiev Katheryn Stavrakis Lesley

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH LOCAL CULTURES.......
The Train from Havana Dervla Murphy
Changing the World's Oldest Profession Arnold Shirek Chamove
Beyond Google Earth Marilyn Lacey
A Farm in the Cévennes Janet Rogers
Roads to Savannakhet Susan Ross
The Kindness of Strangers Nick Gibbons
Last Days in Kadugli Ruth Keene

TIME TO ENJOY THE MOMENT.......................................
Wish You Were Here Kay Wiseman
Tugela Gorge Jean Ashbury
The Road Always Calling Owen Clough
Charlie's Party Trick Julia Hammond
Midnight Sun Malcolm Singer