Inspiring Travel Writing from Brian Jackman
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.
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.
Articles by Brian Jackman
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Tanzania's Serengeti Plains
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Brian Jackman
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Tanzania
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Northern Tanzania
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Serengeti
When it comes to national parks, Serengeti is simply the best. So much space. So many animals. The park itself is enormous - at least as big as Holland - its oceans of grass rimmed by immense horizons that make for a heady sense of freedom. The...
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Before You Die: Heli-Safari
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Brian Jackman
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Kenya
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Lake Naivasha
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Great Rift Valley
Book your own private helicopter (air-conditioning, stereo music, champagne breakfast) for a joy-ride over Kenya's Great Rift Valley from Loisaba, an exclusive game lodge on the Laikipia Plateau. Brian Jackman
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Before You Die: A Luxury Tented Camp
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Brian Jackman
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Kenya
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Masai Mara Region
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Masai Mara
Check into the new Il Moran luxury tented safari camp in Kenya's Masai Mara reserve in August to catch the peak of the Serengeti wildebeest migration - the greatest wildlife show on earth. Brian Jackman
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Grace Hotel, Johannesburg
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Brian Jackman
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Nepal
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Kathmandu Region
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Kathmandu
There are few good reasons for staying in Johannesburg; but if you have to overnight here en route to the game parks, the Grace in Rosebank, 40 minutes from the International Airport, is the place to choose. Rosebank is a fashionable and leafy...
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Ras Kutani
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Brian Jackman
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Tanzania
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Coast
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Dar Es Salaam
In Tanzania, the perfect way to end a safari is to wash off the dust in the Indian Ocean. In which case Ras Kutani is the name to remember. Sheltered from the rest of the world by a pristine forest alive with monkeys, Ras Kutani is a romantic...
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Laikipia Camp & Kitich Camp - Safari Hideaways
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Brian Jackman
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Japan
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Kanto
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Tokyo
Italian-born Stefano Cheli created Elsa's Kopje safari lodge in Meru national park, which is an up-market version of a traditional hunting safari camp. It is set in a glade of fever trees with just four roomy tents (all en-suite), plus a...
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Hotel-Restaurante Zuhayra
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Brian Jackman
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Spain
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Andalucia (Cordoba)
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Zuheros
With its Moorish castle and narrow streets of whitewashed houses, Zuheros is a typical Andaluz pueblo blanco, set against the limestone ramparts of the Sierra de Subbetica, an hour’s drive south of Cordoba. It is also the gateway to the beautiful...
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Old Mondoro Bush Camp
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Brian Jackman
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Zambia
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Lower Zambezi
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Zambezi National Park
Guests at Old Mondoro usually begin their stay with a few days of unadulterated bush luxury at Chiawa, Grant Cumings’ flagship camp higher upstream on the banks of the Zambezi. It was Grant and his father who put the Lower Zambezi on the tourist map...
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Botswana's Okavango Delta
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Brian Jackman
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Botswana
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Moremi and Okavango Delta
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Okavango
The Okavango Delta is one of Africa's last wild places. Every year, summer rains falling 1,000 miles away on the Angolan highlands spill down the Okavango River to create a miraculous oasis in the northern Kalahari. By the happiest of coincidences...
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Kenya's Laikipia Plateau
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Brian Jackman
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Kenya
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Mt Kenya & Aberdares
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Laikipia
Laikipia lies on the threshold of Kenya's wild Northern Frontier Province. It is an enormous area, stretching from the slopes of Mt Kenya to the rim of the Great Rift Valley, and is larger than all Kenya's game reserves and national parks except...