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About the author (2010)
Like almost every other Lonely Planet author he knows, Neil Wilson fell into the guidebook-writing business by accident. Having fled the rat race of the oil industry only four years after graduating as a geologist, he returned to university to do postgraduate research. But academia turned out to be just as dull and constricting as industry, so like any sane person he decided to give it all up to be a penniless freelance writer. The penniless bit was easy. On the writing side, Neil got a foot in the door producing articles on history and culture for a Scottish magazine, while attending a business course and sleeping on a friend's settee. The friend's flatmate just happened to be an editor with a guidebook publisher in Glasgow. Neil submitted a portfolio of his travel photos and smarmed his way through an interview, and next thing he knew he was off to photograph Corfu for a guidebook. That was 1988; since then Neil has written and photographed around 45 guidebooks for several publishers, including HarperCollins, AA Publishing, Berlitz and Lonely Planet. He has written or cowritten around 20 guides for Lonely Planet, specialising in two geographical regions, the UK and Ireland (Edinburgh, Scotland and Ireland) and Eastern Europe (Prague, Czech & Slovak Republics, Poland and Eastern Europe), and has also worked on the first editions of the Lonely Planet guides to Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan, Malta and Brittany In addition to travel guides, Neil has written several nonfiction books, including Great Sea Disasters and the SAS Guide to Tracking & Navigation (but no, he was never in the SAS!), contributed a series of articles on geology and geography to school textbooks and encyclopedias, and had articles published in various Scottish newspapers and magazines. He enjoys learning new languages and can hold a conversation in French, go shopping in Turkish, and get by in Czech, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Norwegian and Russian. Neil has been an outdoors enthusiast since childhood and is still an active hill-walker, mountain-biker, sailor, paraglider, snowboarder, and rock-climber. He has climbed and tramped in four continents, including ascents of Jebel Toubkal in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Mount Kinabalu in northern Borneo, the Old Man of Hoy in Scotland's Orkney Islands and the Northwest Face of Half Dome in California's Yosemite Valley. Neil was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but defected to the east at the age of 18 and still lives in Edinburgh. Neil's favourite place: Wherever he happens to be headed at the time. Best travel tip: Always take half as much gear and twice as much money as you think you'll need.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Prague: City Guide City Guide Series City Travel Guide Series Lonely Planet Prague Lonely Planet Travel Guides Lonely Planet city guide Lonely Planet |
| Authors | Neil Wilson, Mark Baker |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Lonely Planet, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1741796687, 9781741796681 |
| Length | 284 pages |
| Subjects | › › Travel / Europe / Eastern Travel / Reference |
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