Stuart Butler
GB
Stuart is the author of numerous Lonely Planet guides to Africa including Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. He has also written a (now out of print) Bradt guide to Benin and has authored hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles and worked on numerous photographic projects.
Stuarts passion for all things African started young as he grew up listening to tales of his father's childhood in East Africa and his grandparents stories of working on the earliest English language editions of Kenyan newspaper, The Daily Nation.
In his late teens he set off on a backpacking trip through East Africa and Ethiopia. He has since returned numerous times travelling the length and breadth of the continent including extended periods in East Africa.
His adventures in Africa have seen him brushing the desert sands off Sudanese pyramids, hitching a ride in a cargo boat from Eritrea to Saudi Arabia, hunting with pygmies in CAR, meeting witches and spirits in Benin and surfing his way around southern Africa.
His favourite part of the continent though is East Africa and on his most recent trip he was accompanied by his wife and two young children who, after a stay in a Maasai manyatta, seem equally smitten.
Stuart is originally from southwest England, he now lives with his wife and children on the beautiful beaches of southwest France.
For more information about his work, please visit www.stuartbutlerjournalist.com
Expert Reviews (41) - written by Stuart Butler
Botswana- Country review
- - Africa at its Best - Linyanti Concession - - The Mysterious Savuti Channel
- Okavango Delta - - The Most Beautiful Place in Africa
- Country review
- - East Africa’s Most varied Nation - Amboseli National Park - - Elephants under the snows of Kilimanjaro
- Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve - - Elephant Shrews and ghosts
- Buffalo Springs National Reserve - - The Mirror of Samburu
- Hell's Gate National Park - - Walk with Giants
- Kakamega Forest National Reserve - - Find Your Inner Tarzan
- Laikipia Plateau - - The Future of African Conservation
- Lake Bogoria National Reserve - - Sometimes pink tinged lake shore
- Lake Nakuru National Park - - The Family Friendly Park
- Lake Turkana - - Kenya’s Ultimate Adventure
- Lewa Wildlife Conservancy - - Conservation as Business
- Marsabit National Park - - Island in the Sky
- Masai Mara National Reserve - - East Africa at its Exotic Best
- Meru National Park - - Kenya's Forgotten Park
- Nairobi National Park - - Tower Block Safari
- Ruma National Park - - Remote and Rewarding Park
- Saiwa Swamp National Park - - Birds and swimming antelope
- Samburu National Reserve - - Exotic Samburu
- Shaba National Reserve - - The Wild North
- Shimba Hills National Reserve - - Bush and Beach
- Country review
- - Wildlife in the Desert - Etosha National Park - - Life in the Heat Haze
- Skeleton Coast National Park - - The Desert of Bones
- Country review
- - The Continent in a Country - Kruger National Park - - Watch Out for the Policemen
- Country review
- - African Safari Clichés at their Best - Gombe National Park - - Jane Goodall’s Chimpanzee’s
- Katavi National Park - - Primeval Africa
- Mahale Mountains National Park - - Beach Bum Chimps
- Ngorongoro Crater - - More than a Crater
- Selous Game Reserve - - Africa’s Ultimate Wilderness
- Serengeti National Park - - Classic Africa
- Tarangire National Park - - Elephants on the March
- Country review
- - The Beautiful Heart of Africa - Kibale National Park - - The Worlds Best Chimpanzee Encounter?
- Queen Elizabeth National Park - - Amazing Diversity
- Country review
- - The Crown Awaits - Hwange National Park - - Walk with Giants
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Alan Murphy
AU
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Anthony HamAU
Anthony is a photographer and writer for travel magazines and Lonely Planet, including the guides to Kenya and Botswana & Namibia.
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Ariadne van Zandbergen
ZA
Ariadne is a renowned African wildlife photographer whose work is featured in many well-known guidebooks and magazines.
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Brian Jackman
GB
Brian is an award winning travel writer, author of safari books and regular contributor to magazines such as BBC Wildlife and Travel Africa.
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Christopher ClarkGB
Christopher is a British travel writer and has contributed to various Fodor's guidebooks and a range of travel magazines.
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Emma GreggGB
Emma is an award-winning travel writer for Rough Guides, National Geographic Traveller, Travel Africa magazine and The Independent.
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Gemma PitcherAU
Gemma is a travel writer and author of several Lonely Planet guidebooks, including the guides to Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.
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James BainbridgeGB
James is a travel writer and author of many Lonely Planet guides, including senior author of the guide to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland.
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Kim WildmanAU
Kim is a travel writer who authored and updated over 15 guidebooks, including Lonely Planet's South Africa and Bradt's Tanzania guides.
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Lizzie WilliamsZA
Lizzie is a reputed guidebook writer and author of the Footprint guides to South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
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Lucy CorneGB
Lucy is travel writer for a range of publications, including Lonely Planet's guides to Africa, Southern Africa and South Africa.
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Mark EveleighGB
Mark is a travel writer who grew up in Africa and has written over 80 titles for CNN Traveller, Travel Africa, Africa Geographic and more.
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Mary Fitzpatrick
US
Mary is an acclaimed travel writer and author of many Lonely Planet guidebooks, including South Africa, Tanzania, East Africa and Africa.
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Melissa ShalesGB
Melissa is an award winning travel writer for Fodors, Frommers and Insight, including guides to Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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Mike UnwinGB
Mike is an award winning wildlife writer, editor of Travel Zambia magazine and author of the Bradt Guide to Southern African Wildlife.
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Nana LuckhamGB
Nana is a travel writer and author of multiple guidebooks, including the Lonely Planet guides to Africa, Zambia & Malawi and South Africa.
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Paul MurrayGB
Paul is a travel writer, author of the Bradt guidebook to Zimbabwe and is closely involved in promoting tourism to Zimbabwe.
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Philip BriggsZA
Philip is an acclaimed travel writer and author of many guidebooks, including the Bradt guides to Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa.
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Stephen CunliffeZA
Stephen is a travel writer and avid conservationist whose work appears in prestigious magazines such as Africa Geographic and Travel Africa.
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Sue WattGB
Sue is a travel writer, co-author of Footprint's guidebook to Tanzania and regular contributor to Travel Africa magazine.
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Tim BewerUS
Tim is a travel writer who has covered 10 African countries for Lonely Planet's Africa, East Africa and West Africa guidebooks.
