CAPE VERDE ISLANDS - Couverture souple

A., Irwin / C. Wilson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1804692816 ISBN 13 : 9781804692813

Editeur : BRADT, 2025

Synopsis

CAPE VERDE ISLANDS

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À propos de l'auteur

Aisling Irwin (aislingirwin.com) is a journalist and writer who specialises in the environment, the developing world and science. A former correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, she has won several prizes for her writing. Co-authored with Colum Wilson, her Bradt guidebook to Cabo Verde – the first ever English-language travel guide to the islands – was initially published in 1998. When Irwin first visited Cabo Verde, it was an obscure destination with just a few tens of thousands of tourists each year. Although the tourist volume is now approaching seven figures, she believes that Cabo Verde is, at heart, a place not to be consumed, but to be treasured and understood. Irwin and Wilson have co-authored one other book (In Quest of Livingstone: a Journey to the Four Fountains, about their retracing of David Livingstone’s last journey), and she has contributed to books on various subjects, including Bradt’s guide to solar eclipses.

Colum Wilson is a relief worker. He worked for Médecins Sans Frontières and now works for the UK government’s Department for International Development, specialising in providing humanitarian aid to west Africa. Together with journalist Aisling Irwin, he has lived in and written about a range of countries including Zambia and Angola. They have co-authored two books: Bradt’s Cabo Verde and In Quest of Livingstone: a Journey to the Four Fountains, which retraced David Livingstone’s last journey. During the time that he has been visiting Cabo Verde, Wilson has seen it change from a country with little tourism to one definitively on the tourist map.

Murray Stewart has written or co-authored five Bradt guides, and has been published in national travel magazines. He updated the sixth and seventh editions of Bradt’s Cabo Verde guidebook, building on his understanding of Portuguese and a network of island-based contacts to convey the changes in this fast-developing country. He notes that Cabo Verde does not have a wealth of obvious ‘treasures’, possessing few museums, no art galleries, a mere scattering of historical sites. Accordingly, he recommends ‘travelling as an anthropologist such that little treasures appear and quickly turn into big treasures – treasures to store in the memory’. Although loving the Fogo volcano, Santo Antão’s craggy peaks and the glistening beaches of Sal and Boavista, what won him over was ‘the gentle patience of the archipelago’s inhabitants, their ability to intimately share both time and space with each other (and me), and their commitment to live life communally’.

Donna Wheeler (donnawheeler.com) is an experienced travel writer who has written numerous guidebooks for Lonely Planet, DK Eyewitness and Hardie Grant Travel; regularly reviews hotels and restaurants for international outlets; and has worked as a commissioning editor and creative producer. Cabo Verde is her first Bradt title. Her connection to Cabo Verde draws on her time spent in Lisbon researching Portugal’s colonial past, along with an interest in the history of the Atlantic economies and the slave trade. She also has an abiding fascination with border zones and islands, the culture of hospitality around the world, and in mountains and the sea – all of which are informing and driving deep exploration of this Atlantic archipelago off the western coast of continental Africa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BRADT
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1804692816
• ISBN 13: 9781804692813
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 382
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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