Thammy Evans, born in London of Welsh and Malay Chinese parents, has travelled and lived abroad for 30 years. Her first overseas trip was to Malaysia at the age of eight, and she has been dabbling in numerous foreign languages ever since. Professionally, her career lies in the field of political analysis, and includes roles at the Atlantic Council, which promotes constructive leadership and engagement in international affairs. Amongst many travels, her most memorable include the Trans-Mongolian Railway from Tianjin to Moscow in 1991, mountaineering in Bolivia in 1999, and doing the field research for her second Bradt travel guide, Great Wall of China, in 2005. She has also written the Bradt guide to North Macedonia (a country where she worked as a political advisor to NATO HQ Skopje), Bradt’s Skopje e-guide and co-authored Bradt’s Croatia: Istria guidebook (where her family has a stone house by the sea).