Richard Hammond & Jeremy Smith

Richard Hammond writes a regular eco travel column for the Guardian and is the editor of a worldwide guide to Green Places to Stay (Alastair Sawday Publishing, 2006). He has written widely on eco travel for magazines, including BBC Wildlife, Green Futures, Marie Claire, and Sunday Times Magazine, and other newspapers, including The Times and the Observer. He has written several 20,000 word reports on responsible tourism for market research analyst Mintel, including Redefining Ecotourism, Tourism and Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Tourism in the Travel Industry. In 2006, he founded GreenTraveller.co.uk, an online forum for green travel issues, described by the Sunday Times in October 2007 as "the first place to look for green places to stay and environmental issues".

Jeremy Smith is the former editor of the Ecologist - the most widely read environmental magazine in the world. He has commissioned, written and edited features on a wide range of green issues, from what life will be like in a post-oil world to the impact of US Navy sonar on beaked whales off the Bahamas. Towards the end of his tenure at the Ecologist, Jeremy became particularly interested in green travel issues, and since he left the magazine he has become passionate about bringing his considerable experience in environmental matters to promote a more sustainable way to travel. Most recently, he has worked as a consultant on eco-issues to a major hotel travel agency in preparation for their launch of a booking facility for green hotels worldwide.

CLEAN BREAKS

500 New Ways to See the World

Clean Breaks

500 Fantastic experiences that will inspire you to see the world in a new light - unusual holidays and alternative ways to travel that make a real difference to the lives of local people and the planet.

Unique accommodation: bothies and barns in Britain; houseboats in Kerala; mud huts and treehouses in Jamaica; ecolodges in Ecuador. Amazing wildlife: go whale-watching off Ireland; spot pink dolphins in Hong Kong; tracks wolves and bears in Poland; witness zebra migration in Botswana. Climate-friendly travel: the train-hotel from Paris to Madrid; ferry-hopping across the Mediterranean; horse-riding on the Silk Route; cargo-boat travel around the world. Live with the locals: camp with the Bedouin; stay in tipis with Native American Indians; trek with nomads in Mongolia; Aboriginal bush tours in the Australian outback. Extraordinary experiences: kayak around the Scottish Isles: reindeer-sledding in Norway; ride with cowboys in Venezuela; hear the music of the desert in Mali.

‘What I really like are travel books that make you desperate to visit the places they describe—“Clean Breaks” does this, and, best, it does it for every continent.’ New Yorker

'The selection and presentation are inspired: a beguilingly simple, tactile compendium brimming with solid research and good writing.' Dan Linstead, Editor of Wanderlust

‘Plunges into a dazzling world of fresh experiences and hurtles through 122 countries in nearly 400 full-colour picture-filled pages of pure temptation... A special piece of travel publishing, one far more ambitious than anything I’ve seen from its competitors.' WHL Travel

Mail on Sunday's Book of the Week:
’When planning a holiday, what you're looking for are good ideas - and this book is chock-a-block with them...’ Frank Barret, Mail on Sunday

‘This book contains an impressive selection of some of the "cleanest" breaks available to the independent traveller. It is organised around geographical locations, with shorter sections on minimising the environmental impact of your trip. There are some inspired travel ideas, such as visiting a homestay scheme in a Ukrainian village, eco-tours in Iran or hiking through Saxon villages in Romania.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Fab book, brilliantly researched, and makes me very green... with envy, that I didn't write it, of course.’ Irish Times

‘Packed with off-the-beaten-track adventures that minimize environmental impact. Flipping to any page to find a prospect like "Walk with rhinos at Leshiba" or "Pick a Papaya in Sri Lanka" makes for lush material for either planning or daydreaming.’ US-based Green Life

‘Printed on nearly 400 pages of FSC mixed source paper in full color, this is one of those travel books you’re guaranteed to reach for on a rainy day. With 500 hidden gem travel ideas, it’ll keep you’re itinerary full for quite some time too.’ The Alternative Consumer

Sales

World Rights to Rough Guides/Penguin UK