Alexis Averbuck has travelled and lived all over the world, from Sri Lanka and India to Ecuador, Zanzibar and Antarctica. In more recent years she’s been living on Hydra island, Greece and exploring her adopted homeland; travelling to France to sample oysters in Brittany and careen through hill-top villages in Provence; and adventuring along Iceland’s surreal lava fields, sparkling fjords and glacier tongues. She also promotes travel and adventure in video and on television, starring in a program on Catalunya. A travel writer for over two decades, Alexis has lived in Antarctica for a year, crossed the Pacific by sailboat and written books on her journeys through Asia, Europe and the Americas. She's also a painter – visit www.alexisaverbuck.com.

Alexis was born in Oakland, CA, and earned a degree at Harvard University. For Lonely Planet, she currently specializes in Iceland, France (especially Provence, Dordogne, Brittany and the Loire Valley), Italy, Greece and Antarctica.

I’m an author, editor and photographer, and I live in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England.

I work primarily for Lonely Planet and Rough Guides. For Lonely Planet, in the last few years I’ve written new editions of Lonely Planet Kauai and Best of Hawaii; written a Pocket Guide to Oxford & The Cotswolds; covered the whole of Texas for Lonely Planet USA; contributed to the North Carolina section of Georgia & The Carolinas; and updated the Corsica chapter of Lonely Planet France. I’ve also updated three editions of Lonely Planet Greece, and updated New Mexico for Lonely Planet Southwest USA.

I was for several years a senior editor with Rough Guides. I have written sixteen travel, history and music books for Rough Guides as sole author, including Hawaii, Brittany and Normandy and Southwest USA, and shared authorship on many more, among them Barcelona, Japan and Australia.

I also recently updated the DK Eyewitness guide to Brittany, while for Insight Guides I've worked on the latest updates to California, West Coast USA and Southwest USA.

In total I’ve written 23 books on the Hawaiian islands, which besides the Lonely Planet guides mentioned above include six complete editions of the Rough Guide Hawaii; individual Rough Guides to Maui, Oahu and the Big Island; and other guides including Insight Hawaii, DK Eyewitness Hawaii, Berlitz Hawaii, Smart Hawaii and Inside-Out Oahu.

My Rough Guide to the Titanic is a definitive guide to history’s most famous maritime disaster.

As an editor, I co-edited Rough Guides’ Make The Most Of Your Time On Earth with my wife Samantha Cook. I also edited Elvis Has Left The Building by Dylan Jones; Inferno Decoded by Michael Haag, for which I also wrote three chapters; and Lloyd Bradley’s Sounds Like London, published by Serpent’s Tail. I also edited the original Rough Guides to India and the USA, and guides to Elvis, Soul and the Blues.

My photographs have been published in my own books, and also in magazines, newspapers and elsewhere.

Andrea Schulte-Peevers has been a professional travel journalist and photographer for over 20 years. Her destination expertise is especially strong when it comes to Berlin, Germany in general, Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, the Greek island of Crete, and various Caribbean islands. Andrea has had a curiosity for other cultures and people for as long as she can remember. Despite a passion for her German home town, she packed her bags right after school, decamping first to London, then to Los Angeles, where she haunted the hallowed halls of UCLA in pursuit of a degree in English literature. Equipped with such credentials, she fearlessly embarked on a career in journalism, soon getting tapped by Lonely Planet for her Germany expertise.

Andrea has traveled the distance to the moon and back in her visits to some 75 countries. In the process she has authored or contributed to well over 150 Lonely Planet titles as well as to other guides, newspapers, magazines and websites around the world. Among her favorite memories are swimming with sharks in the Galapagos, eating lobster in a rain storm on a deserted Australian island and greeting the new millennium in a village in Andalucia.

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