Writer, Nature-lover, Traveller

Travel

Chasing Lions

Chasing Lions

“This book made me want to jack it all in and sign up for a long overland road trip! Amanda really captures the joy of adventure and the magic of the places she visits – as well as the many challenges – and the characters […]

Chasing Lions: Photos from the story

Chasing Lions: Photos from the story

Chasing Lions is a memoir from when I became an overland expedition leader with Dragoman. Joining in 1988 as someone with absolutely no idea about diesel mechanics or building trucks, let alone leading groups of adventurers across the Middle East or Africa, my 55,000-mile journey […]

An Overlanding Life

An Overlanding Life

The Dragoman brochure that first hooked me on the life of overlanding looks very old-fashioned to my eye now but, of course, 1988 was a long time ago. At the time, this brochure was my window to a different life, a life of adventure and […]

The Young Warrior

The Young Warrior

A poem for a young lion

The Ceremony of the Cutty Wren

The Ceremony of the Cutty Wren

A strange old ceremony witnessed in Suffolk, UK.

A Shropshire Weekend

A Shropshire Weekend

A long weekend in Shropshire.