Hilary Bradt

We are delighted that Hilary Bradt will be joining us on board the MS Hebridean Sky for our November 2024 departure. Hilary Bradt co-founded Bradt Travel Guides in 1974, with a slim volume on backpacking in Peru & Bolivia. Two years later she travelled the length of Africa, from Cape Town to Cairo, and made her first visit to Madagascar. She returned to East Africa and Madagascar as a tour leader in the 1980s and continued to visit Madagascar regularly both as a tour leader and lecturer for Noble Caledonia for many years. She wrote the first English-language to Madagascar in 1986; the guide is now in its 13th edition, updated by Daniel Austin. Through the decades she has written countless articles on Madagascar, its people and wildlife. In 2008 she was awarded an MBE for services to the travel industry and to charity and has received four Lifetime Achievement awards from travel organisations. Her proudest moment was in 2018 when she was invited to the Presidential Palace in Antananarivo to be made an Officer of the Order of Madagascar -- the Madagascan equivalent to an OBE – for services to tourism in Madagascar.