http://www.nigel-richardson.com/ Nigel Richardson | Travel Writer | Breakfast in Brighton | Dog Days In Soho | The Wrong Hands | Radio dramatist en-uk Copyright 2012 Nigel Richardson | Travel Writer | Breakfast in Brighton | Dog Days In Soho | The Wrong Hands | Radio dramatist Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:40:39 GMT A dream-excursion from Datong to Doncaster: read my contribution to the latest Telegraph anthology of writing on railway journeys under journalism or, better still, buy 'Sunrise on the Southbound Sleeper' edited by Michael Kerr index.asp?NewsID=67 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Into the land of my ancestors: Durham, the miners, the colliery owners - and a poet. See under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=66 Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Patria o muerte... Driving the revolutionary road from Santiago to Havana, 50 years after Fidel Castro declared Cuba a socialist state. See under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk index.asp?NewsID=65 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT Visit with me a Brighton of the imagination, filtered through novel, film and film. See under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=64 Mon, 7 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT In remotest Mongolia biologists are unlocking the secrets of the world's most elusive and charismatic cat, the snow leopard. The story is posted under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk index.asp?NewsID=62 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT I hitched a ride to St Kilda on the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior. Read about it in the newly published 'Bon Voyage!: The Telegraph Book of River and Sea Journeys' (Aurum Press) and under Journalism index.asp?NewsID=61 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT China's great leap forward: read my account of a month spent in the world's most populous nation, under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=60 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Up the Alaskan panhandle: the wildlife, culture and characters of the largest state in the union are a ferry-hop away. See under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=59 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT To Guernsey to tell a tale of two novels: one overpraised, one a neglected masterpiece. Read it in the Writers category under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=58 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT A visit to Hannibal, Missouri, is a return to the dreamscape of childhood, for this is the hometown of Mark Twain - and his greatest creations, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Read about it in the Writers category of Journalism, and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=57 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT On the streets with Delhi's homeless: a new tour of the Indian capital uses former street children as guides. See under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=56 Tue, 6 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT As rare as a unicorn, as beautiful as Monroe... Read about my quest to glimpse a snow leopard in the wild, under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk index.asp?NewsID=55 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Read my account of a thrilling midwinter journey across Spitsbergen, where global warming and human greed are threatening one of the earth's last great wildernesses. See 'Arctic wilderness under threat' under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=54 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT Recently published: Last Call for the Dining Car: The Telegraph Book of Great Railway Journeys (Aurum Press, £18.99). Read my contribution here, under the Cultures category of Journalism: 'From Mumbai slums to hermetically sealed luxury' index.asp?NewsID=53 Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT Take the high road and avoid the crowds on Nepal's 'Costa del trekking'. See under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=52 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT Hippo attack! How the world's most exclusive adventure suddenly got serious. Read about it under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=51 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT Machu Picchu gets all the attention but Peru also has 'The Tutankhamun of the Americas' and many other astonishing sites. See under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=50 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT Read my interview with Dr David Starkey on Henry VIII as property tycoon - and where he was conceived (Henry, that is, not David). See under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=48 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT Check into one of the world's weirdest hotels, a hobbity des res in a mountain in Iran. See under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=47 Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT Gabba gabba hey! Take a rock-n-roll tour of New York's East Village, where punk pogoed into being. See under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=46 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT Playing the bassoon to earthworms and other strange practices: what Charles Darwin got up to at his house in Kent, recently reopened to mark the great man's bicentenary. Read about it under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=44 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT Just published by Headline: my latest book, Britain's Best Drives, written with the actor Richard Wilson. To find out more and read an extract, see under Books index.asp?NewsID=43 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT The ghost still howls in the bones of Greenwich Village... Take a freewheelin' tour of the New York neighbourhood that ignited Bob Dylan's creative spark. See under Journalism and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=42 Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT As Barack Obama becomes the 44th US President, it is timely to learn about the African-American experience in the Deep South. Read about Savannah and Charleston from a non-white perspective, on the Journalism page under Cities and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=40 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Eco-lodge versus loggers: Brazil has set up an international fund to combat deforestation in the Amazon. Read my report from the front line: under Journalism or at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=39 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Travel Journalist of the Year: I have won the 2008 award for an article, published in The Daily Telegraph in January 1997, entitled 'Rockin' All Over England'. Read it on the Journalism page, under 'Cities' index.asp?NewsID=36 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT Iran through the needle's eye: read my account of a revelatory journey through the Islamic Republic, on the Journalism page under Cultures and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=35 Sun, 6 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT Read about the strange connection between Dr Martin Luther King Jr and fellow Atlantan, Margaret Mitchell, the author of Gone With the Wind: in the 'Cities' category on the Journalism page, and at www.telegraph.co.uk/travel index.asp?NewsID=33 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT The Wrong Hands has just been published in paperback in the US by Laurel-Leaf, the children's book imprint of Random House index.asp?NewsID=32 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT The paperback edition of The Wrong Hands will be published in the US by Knopf in February 2008. index.asp?NewsID=28 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT In the pipeline: Over the next few months look out for pieces on the mystical thrill of jaguar tracking in the wilds of Brazil index.asp?NewsID=27 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT