Jasper Winn

Writers bio:
Jasper Winn is a writer, photographer, broadcaster and filmmaker with specialist interests in world music, horses, the peoples of remote regions, bizarre festivals, and anything off-beat. He writes regularly for The Evening Standard, CN Traveller, Geographical, The Times and The Independent on Sunday. He broadcasts for the BBC and RTE and has made and presented travel documentaries for C4.

Jasper has cycled across the Sahara, West Africa and India, and canoed from Dublin to the Mediterranean by river, and the length of the Danube. He has travelled by horse in Iran, Mexico, Morocco, Ireland, Venezuela, Cuba and many other countries. For a year, as a Winston Churchill Trust Fellow, he travelled 2,000 kilometers on foot and by mule with a Moroccan Berber nomadic family and their sheep and camels.

He is a frequent lecturer for the RSGS, The British Council and national travel shows. He is currently writing a book on horse-based peoples worldwide.