As if freelance travel journalists didn't have enough to worry about...
18.11.2025 11:29 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Loved your piece Chau-Jean 🙌🏽
19.11.2025 10:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was delighted to write about the Alishan Forest Railway in #Taiwan for Lonely Planet's latest book. I've been on it the mountain many times to get to my aunt's tea farm.
There are also fantastic pieces by @olismithtravel.bsky.social, @shafikmeghji.bsky.social , @monisharajesh.bsky.social.
19.11.2025 10:25 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Shafik’s book Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia featured in the new Lonely Planet Bolivia
Great to see #CrossedOffTheMap featured in the recommended books section of the new edition of Lonely Planet Bolivia 🇧🇴
📖 @latinamericabureau.bsky.social
www.stanfords.co.uk/crossed-off-...
16.11.2025 14:42 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Shafik’s book Crossed Off the Map: Travels in Bolivia featured in the new Lonely Planet Bolivia
Great to see #CrossedOffTheMap featured in the recommended books section of the new edition of Lonely Planet Bolivia 🇧🇴
📖 @latinamericabureau.bsky.social
www.stanfords.co.uk/crossed-off-...
16.11.2025 14:42 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Some very early reactions to a brilliant biography of Peter Mattheissen by @lancerichardson.bsky.social
15.11.2025 15:51 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
15.11.2025 06:43 — 👍 2243 🔁 809 💬 149 📌 163
The front cover of National Geographic Traveller magazine
Shafik’s article on his new book Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South America in the magazine
A ‘stolen friend’ from Easter Island, ghost towns in the Atacama, the ‘Jewel of the Pacific’ and the southernmost city on Earth…
In the new issue of National Geographic Traveller, I trace some of the unexpected British links in Chile featured in #SmallEarthquakes.
📖 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
11.11.2025 19:06 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations Caroline, it sounds like a fascinating book 🎉
11.11.2025 20:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The front cover of National Geographic Traveller magazine
Shafik’s article on his new book Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South America in the magazine
A ‘stolen friend’ from Easter Island, ghost towns in the Atacama, the ‘Jewel of the Pacific’ and the southernmost city on Earth…
In the new issue of National Geographic Traveller, I trace some of the unexpected British links in Chile featured in #SmallEarthquakes.
📖 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
11.11.2025 19:06 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations Shebs 🎉
08.11.2025 17:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An image of a toucan on a graphic for the festival.
The schedule for the event.
🚨 Last chance to pick up a ticket for Bradt’s Latin America Travel Festival at the @rgsibg.bsky.social tomorrow.
There’s a host of great speakers, including @nori-jemil-travel.bsky.social & @simoncalder.bsky.social.
I’ll be discussing #SmallEarthquakes & appearing on the train travel panel.
07.11.2025 14:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
An image of a toucan on a graphic for the festival.
The schedule for the event.
🚨 Last chance to pick up a ticket for Bradt’s Latin America Travel Festival at the @rgsibg.bsky.social tomorrow.
There’s a host of great speakers, including @nori-jemil-travel.bsky.social & @simoncalder.bsky.social.
I’ll be discussing #SmallEarthquakes & appearing on the train travel panel.
07.11.2025 14:06 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Good idea!
07.11.2025 13:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ah, fantastic- there so much hidden in plain sight in London, as well as BA. Happy exploring!
07.11.2025 12:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks Grace, wonderful to hear you’re enjoying Small Earthquakes!
07.11.2025 11:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’m loving this book by @shafikmeghji.bsky.social
On history of UK and South America
What’s so nice is he highlights all the places you can see in London, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Patagonia and elsewhere that show the forgotten history
07.11.2025 10:22 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks guys 🙏🏽
06.11.2025 16:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🥳 Congrats to @shafikmeghji.bsky.social! Grab your copy of 'Small Earthquakes' here ➡️ tinyurl.com/5t56ty2c
Get 25% off w/promo code EARTHQUAKES25
06.11.2025 10:04 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks Peter!
05.11.2025 18:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks Dani!
04.11.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks Annie!
04.11.2025 14:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shafik Meghji on stage collecting the Travel Narrative Book of the Year award.
A Travel Narrative Book of the Year graphic.
Thrilled to win Travel Narrative Book of the Year for #SmallEarthquakes at last night’s @travwriters.bsky.social awards 🎉
An honour to be up against the brilliant Ash Bhardwaj and Simon Parker 🙌🏽
📖 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
bgtw.org/awards/membe...
04.11.2025 14:11 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org
29.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 31 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 5
Shafik Meghji’s 'Small Earthquakes' unearths Britain’s forgotten past in South America
Meghji, an experienced travel writer and journalist, uses his own journeys across the continent to anchor the history
‘This book is a seamless blend of travel writing, history, and modern reporting, making it both educational and a joy… a thrilling and vital read.’
Great to see #SmallEarthquakes reviewed in @easterneye.bsky.social.
📖 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
www.easterneye.biz/small-earthq...
30.10.2025 09:23 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Shafik Meghji’s 'Small Earthquakes' unearths Britain’s forgotten past in South America
Meghji, an experienced travel writer and journalist, uses his own journeys across the continent to anchor the history
‘This book is a seamless blend of travel writing, history, and modern reporting, making it both educational and a joy… a thrilling and vital read.’
Great to see #SmallEarthquakes reviewed in @easterneye.bsky.social.
📖 @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
www.easterneye.biz/small-earthq...
30.10.2025 09:23 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'.
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Award winning On Gallows Down. Ghosts of the Farm coming 30/11!
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North Wessex Downs.
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Nature, people & travel on the edge. My first book 'Tea and Grit: A Bicycle Journey along the Silk Road' about a 15,000 km bike ride through Syria, Iran, Turkey and Central Asia is coming soon! https://www.helenwatsonwriting.com/home
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Liverpool fan (@AndCouldHePlay7 on the other place & now here too). Actor/voiceover (Adam Stevens). Do stuff like The Anfield Wrap. I have multiple sclerosis but refuse to say I’m a victim of it.
Financial Times columnist, football podcaster at Heroes and Humans, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics etc. British and now French, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
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