It is a dozen years since Bradt Travel Guides published the first edition of Laurence Mitchell’s Serbia guide. Slobodan Milošević was still on trial in The Hague, Ratko Mladić was still on the run and there were raw memories in Belgrade of the assassination in 2003 of the Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić. Serbia was deeply unfashionable and it was a risky publishing venture to launch a new guidebook to the country. But Bradt has often ventured into off-grid territory.
Beyond the Tourist Gaze: Revealing the Power of the Guidebook
It's surely not a great challenge to write a new guidebook on well trodden territory. But imagine you were asked to write a guidebook to North Korea, Turkmenistan or Belarus. Quite a challenge! But it is just the kind of challenge relished by the ...