David Yeadon: Adventure Travel Author, Columnist, Illustrator, Photojournalist

TRAVEL FEATURES by David Yeadon

Adventure travel author David Yeadon has traveled the world, delighting readers with his experiences and insight, easily winning the reputation as one of the best travel writers in the world.

"We each have one life—but many hidden adventurous 'selves.' So come explore the earth's hidden corners, nooks and crannies, backroads, lost worlds and secret places—and also discover your own secret places and diverse 'selves' within.

May you enjoy all your journeys!" —David

 

Samples Published by TravelClassics.com

Ode (and Owed) To America's Backroads

ALL AROUND TOWN - EXPLORING NEW YORK NEIGHBORHOODS
BEIJING: Hot Spots and Hutongs in a Multi-faceted City
CHILE'S ATACAMA DESERT
NEVIS: A Hidden - and Happy - Paradise
Hiding Away in Harris
INDIA - THE RANN OF KUTCH
Manhattan's Marvelous Museums
Noshing In Splendor Through Wales
PARIS BY NIGHT
Proper British Ale
Sao Miguel and the Azores: Misty Fragments of Atlantis
TRAIN ACROSS CANADA, A Serendipitous Odyssey of the Senses
Secrets of Hawaii's Big Island
VENICE Serene, Sensual . . .Loving to Be Loved
Wonderous Wales - Exploring the Wild Side of Britain

Also see Yeadon's The Challenges of Travel on http://www.healthandage.com

 

OTHER FEATURES

Publication Codes

NG National Geographic Magazine
NGT National Geographic Traveler
MYT New York Times - Travel Section
WP Washington Post - Travel Section
IS Islands Magazine
CTL Caribbean Travel & Life
TH Travel & Holiday
C Chevron USA

T Traveller (U.K.)


OS Oriando Sentinel - Travel
LE Lands' End features
G Geo (Germany)
D Diversion
TR Travel Review
GI Guest Informant
LS Latitudes South
AM American Airlines Magazine
TT Travelers' Tales (various books)
MC Morning Calm (Korean Air)


DY Dynasty (China Air)
B Belvedere
L Lapis (New York Open Center)
PS Four Seasons Magazine
S Sojourns
A Amerika (Holland)
B Seasons Magazine
GP Going Places
DA The Dalesman (UK)

USA AND CANADA

NEW JERSEY'S PINE BARRENS - Adventures with the Pineys (WP 11/12/90)
CHESAPEAKE BAY - Crabs, Watermen and Wild Ponies (C 7/87)
NEW YORK - "Boroughing" Beyond the Core of the Big Apple (WP 3/22/90; MC 10/96)
NEW YORK: Tallest (OS 10/7/90)
NEW YORK: Largest (OS 10/7/90)
FOOTLOOSE IN PHILLY - Exploring Hidden Philadelphia (C 12/87)
PHILADELPHIA - A "City of Neighborhoods" (WP 3/5/87)
THE BERKSHIRES -A Ramble through Quiet Hills (C 9/85)
THE BAY OF FUNDY - Exploring New Brunswick's Southern Shore (C 7/86; TR 4/90)
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BACKROADS - Offbeat Adventures in Victorian Towns & Gold-Rush Country (D 5/86; D 10/83)
GRAND MANAN ISLAND - Canada's Cliff-bound Outpost (TH 5/86; WP 2/12/89; NYT 7/31/83)
ST. PIERRE-MIQUELON ISLANDS - Lonely Outposts of France, in Canada (WP 10/7/84)
DAUFUSKIE (Georgia) - The Island that Time (Almost) Forgot (WP 5/8/88)
THE MAGDALEN ISLANDS - Sea, Sun & Seclusion in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (WP 6/7/87)
MISTY KINGDOMS - Journeys to Four Secluded Maine Islands (NYT 9/26/84)
EXPLORING CALIFORNIA'S SMALL TOWNS - Surprises on the Backroads (D 9/84)
THE DELMARVA PENINSULA - A Shunpiking East Coast Adventure (NYT 3/13/86)
CAPE COD - A Whale-Watching Day off Provincetown (WP 8/1/91)
NEBRASKA'S SANDHILLS - The Lonely "Land of Shadows" (WP - 7/28/91)
NEW YORK - Hidden Enclaves & Delights in Manhattan (WP 4/19/92; T - Autumn 91)
CALIFORNIA'S CHINOISE CUISINE (NYT 6/11/89)
QUEBEC - A Crafts Revival (NYT 2/26/84; D 5/84)
UTAH - Lost in the Canyonlands (WP Scheduled)
THE GREEN MOUNTAINS: Vermont (WP 9/6/92)
MONTREAL'S OLD TOWN (WP Scheduled)
NORTH CAROLINA: The Strange Mysteries of Transylvania County (WP 5/3/92)
SAPELO ISLAND (Georgia): A True "Place Apart" (WP 12/19/93)
NEW YORK'S "BABY GRAND" HOTELS (WP 1/12/92)
NEW YORK'S MUSEUMS (NGT 9/93)
THE SAN DIEGO BACK COUNTRY (WP 11/96)
TORONTO - A Global City (WP Scheduled)
CHICAGO - Phoenix City of the Plains (NOT 3/94; B3/96)
CALIFORNIA'S NORTH FACE (NG 7/93)
PENNSYLVANIA - THE KISHACOQUILLAS VALLEY (WP 5/1/94)
CHICAGO - WONDER CITY (GI 11/94)
NEW YORK AT NIGHT (GI 2/95)
NEW YORK'S FABULOUS MUSEUMS (GI 2/95)
CHICAGO - City of Big Shoulders (DY - 2/96; B 3/96; S Spring 97)
WASHINGTON DC - A Surprising City (MC - March 96)
NEW YORK - SoHo Recreates Itself (MC - 12/96; B 11/96)
CONNECTICUT - The Litchfield Hills in the Fall (WP - 9/3/95)
CONNECTICUT - Mysteries of the Mystic Coast (WP - 8/96)
MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOODS (NGT 1/97)
ACROSS CANADA BY TRAIN (NGT 7/97; A 2/98; GP Scheduled)
THE HUDSON VALLEY WINERIES (WP Scheduled)
PHILADELPHIA - Touchstone of History (Gl-95)
OTTAWA - Canada's Cinderella City (NGT - 4/98)

BRITAIN

SCOTLAND'S OUTER HEBRIDES - Among the Crofters & the Weavers of Tweed (WP 8/26/90; LE 9/86)
ENGLAND'S PENNINE WAY - A 270-Mile Walk up the Backbone of Britain (NG 3/86; WP 10/1/89)
BRONTE COUNTRY - The Lonely (Literary) Moors of Northern England (WP 1/20/85)
THE JAMES HERRIOT COUNTRY - Exploring Yorkshire's Dales and Moors (WP 9/13/87)
SCOTLAND'S TORRIDON - Lost with Lea in Britain's Wildest Land (WP 1/22/89)
LONDON'S SMITHFIELD MARKET - Banter, Barter & 4 a.m. Beer! (NYT 1/15/84; WP 12/17/95)
THE CLEVELAND WAY - A 100 mile Hike on Yorkshire's East Coast (NYT 9/29/85)
ENGLAND'S HILL TOWNS - An Unusual Odyssey (WP - Scheduled)
THE YORKSHIRE DALES - Wensleydale and Its Cheese (NYT 3/15/85)
PROPER BRITISH ALE - (NYT 2/13/83)
THE THOMAS HARDY COUNTRY (NYT 7/26/81; WP 8/13/95)
LONDON - The Ten Best Pubs (NYT 3/10/88)
WONDROUS WALES (NGT 7/93; B 11/97; GP Scheduled)
LONDON'S ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSTORES (WP 5/14/95)
THE WILD SIDE OF WALES (WP - 11/94)
HARROGATE - A Yorkshire Victorian Spa Town (WP 7/16/95)
WALES: Country House Hotels (WP 3/26/95)
ENGLAND'S WILDEST DRIVE (WP Scheduled)
OXFORD, ENGLAND (WP Scheduled)
LINCOLN, ENGLAND (WP Scheduled)
HIKING THE BACKBONE OF ENGLAND (B 1/97; GP Scheduled)
ENGLANDS BRONTELAND (SE Fall 97/NGT-Scheduled)
THE YORKSHIRE DALES (illustrations) - (DA 11/85, 5/86, 10/86)
PENNINE SKETCHBOOK (illustrations) - fDA 12/85)

EUROPE

THE BASQUE COUNTRY - Exploring the Byways of Southwestern France (WP 3/25/90)
PORTUGAL'S ALENTEJO - The Pleasures of Pousadas, Fados & Vinho Verde (WP 3/19/89)
SPAIN'S LA MANCHA - The Quest for Windmills in Quixote Country (WP 1/21/90; OS 3/15/90)
ITALY'S LUCCA - An Unsung City of Plazas and Palaces (WP 9/23/90; TR 9/91)
THE AZORES - Misty Fragments of Atlantis (WP 8/14/88; G 12/89; B 7/96)
THE LIPARI ISLANDS (Italy) - Wanderings in the Lands of Aeolus (NYT 3/20/80)
KEA ISLAND (Greece) - Looking for Zorba in an Aegean Paradise (WP 5/14/89; TR 2/90)
GRAN CANARIA (Canary Is.) - Letting Life Happen (WP 12/23/90; TT – Spain 95)
GOMERA - Forgotten Isle of the Canaries (WP - Scheduled)
THE PERIGORD OF FRANCE (NGT under negotiation)
NORWAY - Voyage in the Land of the Vikings (Sognefjord - WP 5/7/95)
CANARY ISLANDS: El Roque (TT Spain 95)
NORWAY - The Great Sognefjord (WP Scheduled)
WARSAW - (WP Scheduled)
KRAKOW - (WP Scheduled)
VENICE - Queen of the Adriatic (GP 7/97)

THE REST OF THE WORLD

GOA (India) - a True "Penny Paradise" (WP 5/27/90; TT-India 1995))
THAILAND - Trekking the Golden Triangle (WP 9/24/89; GP 10/97)
THAILAND - Lessons of Life among the Bangkok Klongs (WP 1/10/88)
VENEZUELA - Journey to a Lost World (The Gran Sabana) (WP 10/7/90)
HAPLESS IN HONG KONG - The Misadventures of a Gourmand (WP 11/26/89)
MACAO & THE ISLANDS - Sidetrips from Hong Kong (WP Scheduled)
CHINA - Adventures on "The China Flyer" Train from Beijing (WP 1/8/89)
CHINA - A Yangtze River Adventure (B 7/97; GP - Scheduled)
INNER MONGOLIA - Yurts, Kangs and Kashmir Goats (LE 9/87)
NEVIS - A Hidden Caribbean Paradise (LE 12/87; CT & L 7/94)
ST. KITTS & NEVIS (WP 10/4/87; NYT 1/5/86; CT & L 1/94; LS 10/94)
MARRAKESH - A Day in the Djemaa el Fna "Market" (LE 6/88)
OUTSIDE MARRAKESH - Journey to the Edge of the Sahara (WP 5/22/88; D 7/84)
THE LAST CARAVAN - Adventures with the Blue People of the Sahara (LE 9/88)
HONG KONG -The Serene Pleasures of the Outer Islands (WP 3/17/88; TT-Hong Kong 96)
COSTA RICA - Golden Toads, Turtles & Monkeys in a Magic Land (WP 12/10/89; TR 11/90)
HAITI - Exploring the Remote Northwestern Peninsula (WP 7/7/91)
IRAN - Boar-ing Days by the Caspian Sea (WP 5/26/91)
TRAVELS IN INDIA - The Travails of a TET (Totally Exasperated Traveler) (TT India 95)
KATHMANDU - An Unfinished Experience in Nepal (SE Spring 97)
INDIA - THE RANN OF KUTCH - A Long Journey into Nowhereness (TT – India 95)
SOUTH THAILAND - Sea-Drifting Among the Outer Islands (WP 10/20/91)
MAURITIUS - A Magic Isle in the Middle of Nowhere (WP 11/17/91; B 3/97)
VENEZUELA - Los Llanos (WP 10/27/91)
VENEZUELA - Into the Lost World of El Tisure (WP 12/22/91)
AUSTRALIA: Dueling with Road Trains (AM 3/94)
ANTIGUA - Behind the Scenes in Paradise (WP Scheduled)
MOROCCO - Fez (D 1/86)
BARBUDA - Forgotten Island of the Caribbean (WP 3/26/92)
PANAMA - Into the Darien (WP - 8/13/92)
FIJI'S TAVEUNI (WP 11/15/92)
THE CHILEAN FJORDS - Hidden Worlds of Ice and Grandeur (WP 9/19/93)
ZAIRE: RUWENZORI - Exploring the Mountains of the Moon (WP Scheduled – 2 features)
AUSTRALIA - The Unique Bungle-Bungle Region (WP 12/26/93)
AUSTRALIA - The Other Barrier Reef (WP Scheduled)
ICELAND - Fire, Ice and Legend (WP Scheduled)
TASMANIA - Exploring the Unmapped Soulhwest (WP 10/18/92)
PANAMA - A Journey by Bus and Canoe (WP 11/7/92)
THE WORLDS BEST BEACHES (IS 7/92)
AUSTRALIA - Journey into Dreamtime (NGT 1/95)
AUSTRALIA - An Aboriginal Dreamtime Odyssey (B - 1/96; L Fall 96; TT 97)
AUSTRALIA - Adventures in Aboriginal Dreamtime (MC - 11/95)
CHILE - An Atacama Desert Journey (WP - Scheduled)
CHILE - From Patagonia to Chiloe - The Hard Way (WP - Scheduled)
THAILAND - Chiang Mai and the Northern Hill Tribes (MC - April 96; B - 5/96; F - 7/97)
A WILD ROGUERIE - The Ramblings of a Lost Worlds Explorer (L – Summer 95)
ILES DES SAINTES (Guadeloupe)
(CTL 3/93; WP -10/20/96; LS - Spring 97)
MARIE GALANTE (Guadeloupe) (CTL 3/93; LS Spring 97)
MARTINIQUE - French, Feminine and Frisky (CTL 11/95; LS 9/96)
INDIA - A Bath for Fifteen Million People (TT- India 95)
INDIA - Love Has Teeth (TT - India 95)
INDIA - The Mirage of Life (TT - India 95)
ST. VINCENT (CTL 9/96; L Fall 96; WP 3/1/98))
PANAMA: The Darien Gap (FS 9/96)
INDIA: The Great Kumbh Mela Festival (TT - India 1995)
JAPAN: Kurashiki's Tivoli Gardens (NGT - Scheduled)
JAPAN: Nagasaki - A Poignant Reminder (NGT - 3/98)
JAPAN: Nikko - A Mountain Fantasy World (NGT - Scheduled)
JAPAN: A Neophyte in Tokyo (NGT - Scheduled)
AUSTRALIA: Hinchinbrook Island (GP - 5/98; NGT Scheduled)
BOLIVIA - Lake Titicaca and Beyond (NGT Scheduled)

INNER JOURNEYS (Travel-Related)

ODE (AND OWED) TO BACKROADS (with illustrations) - (NGT Scheduled; SE scheduled)
TO GO ADVENTURING (S Fall 96)
A WILD ROGUERIE: The Ramblings of a "Lost Worlds" Explorer (L – Summer 1995)
AN ABORIGINAL DREAMTIME ODYYSEY (L Fall 96)
THE ISLAND: A Celebration of Solitude (TT - Scheduled 1997; L – Fall 1996)
A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE (L 1997 Scheduled)
THE PEACOCK'S TAIL (TT Scheduled; S 9/96)
REFLECTIONS ON THE TRAVELING LIFE (TT Scheduled 1998)
THE WILDEST PLACES OF ALL ARE WITHIN (TT Scheduled 1998)
A WONDERFUL WACKY WEEKEND (TT: Love and Romance 97)
LETTING LIFE HAPPEN (TT Spain 95; The Gift of Travel - 98)
THE FEAR OF FEAR: Adventures with the New Jersey Pineys (L Spring 98)
COSTA RICA: BANANAS (TT Food 96)

ESSAYS & COMMENTARIES

RITES OF RENEWAL (WP 1/1/89; NGT 6/98)
MOVING HOUSE (NYT 6/11/89)
GUESTS OF SUMMER (WP 6/30/91)

FEATURES IN PROGRESS

USA - CALIFORNIA - Shasta's Strange Sects and "Halo" Drive
USA - MISSOURI - Meanderings in America's Rhineland
SPAIN - The Europas - A Hidden Mountain Shangri-La
PORTUGAL - The Pleasures of Pousadas and Manor-House Hotels
JAPAN - The Old Ways of Kyushu Island
LANGUID DAYS IN LATVIA - Unexpected Travel Delights
ITALY - The Pure Pleasures of Ponza Island
ITALY - Doing the Dolomites Without the Crowds
INDONESIA'S MYSTICAL JAVA - The Enduring Power of Ancient Magic
INDONESIA - Exploring the Quiet Side of Bali
INDONESIA'S LOMBOK - An Idyllic Alternative to Bali
SCOTLAND - Serendipity Among the Shetland Isles
FRANCE - The Secrets of the "Green Venice" of Marais Poitevin
FRANCE - The Hidden Perigord - A Gourmand's Paradise
INDIA - The Unique Temple Towns of Tamil Nadu
INDIA - The Golden-Walled City ofJaiselmer
BRITAIN - The Isle of Man - A Strange Place of Folklore and Fantasy
BRITAIN - The Channel Islands - An Odd Blend of Britain and France
IRELAND - The Delights of the Dingle Peninsula
GENERAL - The Need for a New Age of Travel and Tourism