Destinations presents Nicholas Crane
In conversation with ED GRENBY, SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL MAGAZINE
Date: Friday 29th February
Time: 2.00pm
Nicholas Crane has been a full-time writer since 1979. The author of several travel books, he has also been published in the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Guardian. In 1986 he was part of a two-man team which identified and visited for the first time the geographical Pole of Inaccessibility, the point on the globe most distant from the open sea, in a remote corner of the Gobi Desert. He has also travelled extensively in Tibet, China, Afghanistan and Africa. CLEAR WATERS RISING, the story of his mountain walk across Europe, won the prestigious Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award in 1997 and his biography of the famous 16th-century mapmaker Gerhard Mercator was published in 2002.
Nicholas's eight-part television series MAP MAN, about British cartography, was screened on BBC2 in 2004, and its success led to a second series, which was broadcast in the autumn of 2005. He has been the lead presenter on BBC2's flagship series COAST, and his latest project, GREAT BRITISH JOURNEYS, which aired to great acclaim this summer, was accompanied by a book of the same name.
Interviewed by Ed Grenby:
Multi-award-winning editor of Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Ed Grenby brings a fresh, funny and – crucially – user-friendly approach to the often dry, elitist world of holiday journalism. Readers love the equal-parts entertaining and informative tone he has cultivated in its pages, thanks largely to a background in major-league men’s magazines. This has helped make STTM the best-selling travel title on the UK newsstand.