Philip Briggs

Philip Briggs

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Nature’s gentle giants: a comprehensive guide to gorilla tracking

For many, gorilla tracking is a spine-tingling wildlife experience without peer.

21st September 2020

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The best wildlife encounters in Rwanda

Your comprehensive guide to finding Rwanda's most intriguing wildlife including gorillas, chameleons and rhinos.

6th July 2020

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A musical tour of Africa

Philip Briggs shares some of his favourite tracks from across the continent

6th May 2020

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A booze embargo and virtual marathons

Author of multiple Bradt guides over the years shares his experiences of lockdown in South Africa

16th April 2020

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Five alternative wildlife experiences in Uganda

There's much more to Uganda than tracking gorillas in the mist.

6th February 2020

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In search of king whale-head

The story of the shoebill, one of Africa's most elusive birds.

4th November 2019

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The best monasteries in North Macedonia

From large lakeside complexes to tiny clifftop churches, North Macedonia is home to some of the best monasteries in Europe.

22nd May 2019

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Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project

Author Philip Briggs describes the work of The Gambia’s Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project.

21st November 2017

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The Great Migration

The annual migration of millions of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle across Tanzania's Serengeti Plains is the greatest wildlife spectacle of its type in Africa.

19th June 2017

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What not to miss in Tanzania

Tanzania is truly a country of highlights, from unrivalled game-viewing to relaxing on the Indian Ocean coastline.

13th April 2017

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Philip Briggs is one of the world’s most experienced and prolific guidebook writers. Associated with Bradt since 1991 when he wrote the first guide to South Africa published internationally after the release of Nelson Mandela, he spent the rest of the 1990s producing pioneering Bradt travel guides to destinations that were then – and in some cases still are – otherwise practically uncharted by the travel publishing industry. These included the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Ghana and Rwanda, all of which are still regularly updated for new editions. More recently, while still focusing on Africa by writing new guidebooks to Somaliland and The Gambia, he has written or updated Bradt guides to several destinations further afield, among them Suriname, Sri Lanka, Macedonia and Greece: The Peloponnese. He spends at least four months on the road every year, usually accompanied by his wife, the travel photographer Ariadne Van Zandbergen, and spends his rest of the time battering away at a keyboard in the sleepy South African coastal village of Wilderness.