Terry Marsh Biography

Travel writer and photographer

I am a full-time writer and photographer, specialising in travel and the outdoors, and contributing mainly to a few magazines in the UK, and doing guidebook revisions. I don't profess to write for a wide ranges of publications, nor to the hundreds of websites that proliferate today, but I do contribute to www.dinkyguide.com from time to time.

In the belief that if I visit every country in the world, I actually won't learn much about anything, except travelling, I rather tend to specialise in the UK, Ireland, France, Madeira, the Azores and Australia, although I do have quite a love affair with Copenhagen. The UK I've known since I was, well, very small, and France since 1973 when I first went camping in Chamonix. Australia I've been visiting quite regularly since 1998, long enough, anyway, to amass around 6,000 pictures and a permanent longing to go back, frequently.

I have a wide range of interests, but I started writing about the countryside and landscapes of the UK, and have a raft of walking guidebooks in my portfolio. Since foot and mouth kyboshed that pursuit in 2001, I've been focusing more on travel, mostly in France – and, of course, that means food and drink…and drink and food…and… In the outdoor genre my latest interest is geocaching, which has led to a new book Geocaching in the UK, published in January 2011.

I am the proprietor of Writers and Photographers unLimited and Guidebookwriters.com WPu and Guidebookwriters.com.

I have written or contributed to almost 100 books including Ireland with your Family, AA British Leisure Guide, The Magic of the Scottish Islands, The Dales of Lakeland, AA Essential England, Colours of Australia and guidebooks to many of the UK's long-distance trails.

I am intermittently working on a travel narrative book about Australia. In 2006 I gained an MA with Distinction in Lake District Studies from the University of Lancaster, and I am currently doing postgraduate research leading to a PhD in Historical Geography.

Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island, Australia

West coast, Jersey, Channel Islands

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