Brian Jackman

Writers bio:
Brian Jackman is a freelance journalist and author who writes on travel and wildlife. For 20 years he worked for The Sunday Times, from 1970 to 1990, and has travelled widely in Africa, visiting all its best-known parks and game reserves.

He is the author of several books on Africa, including The Marsh Lions and The Big Cat Diary (with Jonathan Scott), and also edited Battle for the Elephants, by Iain and Oria Douglas Hamilton. His other books include the best-selling We Learned To Ski, The Countryside in Winter, and Roaring At The Dawn.

In 1982 he was voted Travel Writer of the Year, and won the Wildscreen 82 award for the best film commentary script, Osprey, at the first International Wildlife Television Festival in Bristol. His most recent accolade comes from the ATTA (African Travel and Tourism Association), who have voted him their Travel Writer of the Year 2005. He is married, with one daughter, and lives in Dorset.