About Amelia

A recovering travel writer, Amelia was educated at the University of Cambridge, and has written for many newspapers and magazines, including CNN Traveler, the Sunday Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Times and the Middle East Times. She authored over a dozen books for Lonely Planet, including the first guide to Israel and the Palestinian Territories following the Second Intifada. Her book “The Zoo on the Road to Nablus” won the Daily Mail Critic’s Choice, and inspired the documentary ‘Waiting for Giraffes.’

She lives with her husband, five children, horses, pigs, dogs, and assorted other creatures on a tumbledown farm in Canada.