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Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent (born 29 November 1978) is a British travel writer and broadcaster who specializes in solo journeys through remote regions. Her latest book, ''Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains,'' was shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards.
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Bolingbroke-Kent has spoken about her travels at the Royal Geographical Society, the Financial Times Festival, the Kendal Mountain Festival and the Cheltenham Festival. Until 2018, Bolingbroke-Kent worked as a freelance television producer. Her credits include ''World’s Most Dangerous Roads'' (BBC2), ''Tom Hardy’s'' ''Poaching Wars'' (ITV), ''Joanna Lumley’s'' ''India'' (ITV) and ''Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure'' (ITV). She is also the co-founder and director of the travel company Silk Road Adventures.
Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent (born 29 November 1978) is a British travel writer and broadcaster who specializes in solo journeys through remote regions. Her latest book, ''Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains,'' was shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards.
Personal life
Bolingbroke-Kent was born in Norfolk and educated atWycombe Abbey School
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and The University of Edinburgh
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, where she gained a 1st Class Degree in Modern History. She is the granddaughter of Admiral Sir Walter Couchman KCB CVO DSO OBE.
She lives in the Welsh Black Mountains.
Career
In 2005 Bolingbroke-Kent left her job onThe South Bank Show
''The South Bank Show'' is a British television arts magazine series originally produced by London Weekend Television and broadcast on ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new version of the series began 27 May 2012 on Sky Arts. Conceived, written, ...
to drive an auto rickshaw
An auto rickshaw is a motorized version of the pulled rickshaw or cycle rickshaw. Most have three wheels and do not tilt. They are known by many terms in various countries including auto, auto rickshaw, baby taxi, mototaxi, pigeon, jonnybee, bajaj ...
from Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estima ...
to Brighton
Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...
with her friend Jo Huxster. Their 98-day, 12,561 mile journey took them across 12 countries, including China, Kazakhstan and Russia. By completing the journey, they raised £50,000 for the mental health charity Mind, and broke the Guinness World Record for the longest ever journey by auto-rickshaw. The pair were later awarded Cosmopolitan magazine's Fun, Fearless Female Award. The comedian Stephen Fry called it a ‘brave and marvellous adventure.’
In 2013 Bolingbroke-Kent followed the remains of the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia on a Honda Cub motorcycle. This was her first major solo adventure. A book about this trip, ''A Short Ride in the Jungle,'' was published by Summersdale (UK) in 2014. The Irish travel writer Dervla Murphy
Dervla Murphy (28 November 1931 – 22 May 2022) was an Irish touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books, writing for more than 50 years.
Murphy is best known for her 1965 book '' Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle'', about a ...
said that she ‘enormously enjoyed every page’, and ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine described it as ‘A jaw-dropping adventure, part travelogue, part thriller….an adrenaline-fuelled, fascinating ride.’
In 2016 Bolingbroke-Kent spent three months exploring the remote Northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares int ...
. Travelling by foot and motorcycle, she spent time with the Idu Mishmi, Adi Adi or ADI may refer to:
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, and Monpa
The Monpa or Mönpa () is a major tribe of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India. The Tawang Monpas have a migration history from Changrelung. The Monpa are believed to be the only nomadic tribe in Northeast India – they are totally dependen ...
tribes. The resulting book, ''Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains,'' was published by Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publ ...
in the UK, India and the US.
In 2019 she was the recipient of the Royal Geographical Society's Neville Shulman Challenge Award, and spent two months exploring the Naga
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tribal territories of Northeast India
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and Myanmar
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.
Bolingbroke-Kent's other journeys include circumnavigating the Black Sea, motorcycling the Pamir Highway
The M41, known informally and more commonly as the Pamir Highway (russian: Памирский тракт, translit=Pamirsky Trakt ), is a road traversing the Pamir Mountains through Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan with a ...
and walking a section of Georgia's Trans-Caucasian Trail.
She is a regular contributor to publications including The Telegraph, The Guardian, Wanderlust and Geographical. She has also recorded several stories for Radio 4's ''From our Own Correspondent''. She has also produced and presented a number of documentaries for BBC Radio 4's Costing the Earth
''Costing the Earth'' is a factual programme on BBC Radio 4 about the environment. The show has been broadcast since 2007 and is also available to download as a podcast.
The programme is produced by the Radio 4 team based in Bristol.
Presenter ...
(about community-based conservation efforts in Nagaland
Nagaland () is a landlocked state in the northeastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south and the Sagaing Region of Myanmar to the east. Its capital cit ...
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Bolingbroke-Kent has spoken about her travels at the Royal Geographical Society, the Financial Times Festival, the Kendal Mountain Festival and the Cheltenham Festival. Until 2018, Bolingbroke-Kent worked as a freelance television producer. Her credits include ''World’s Most Dangerous Roads'' (BBC2), ''Tom Hardy’s'' ''Poaching Wars'' (ITV), ''Joanna Lumley’s'' ''India'' (ITV) and ''Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road Adventure'' (ITV). She is also the co-founder and director of the travel company Silk Road Adventures.
Books
2007 ''Tuk tuk to the Road: Two Girls, Three Wheels, 12,500 miles.''The Friday Project
The Friday Project was a London-based independent publishing house founded by Paul Carr and Clare Christian in June 2004. It evolved out of ''The Friday Thing'', an Internet newsletter taking an offbeat look at the week's politics, media acti ...
(UK).
2014
''A Short Ride in the Jungle: Motorcycling the Ho Chi Minh Trail.'' Summersdale
Summersdale Publishers Ltd (often simply Summersdale) is an English independent publishing firm of non-fiction. The company is based in Chichester, West Sussex.
Founded in 1990 by Stewart Ferris and Alastair Williams, it has since published ov ...
(UK).
2017
''Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains: A Journey Across India’s Forgotten Frontier.'' Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publ ...
(UK, USA, India).
Articles and Broadcasts The Guardian, 2022 - Trophy Hunting in Tajikistan References
BBC Radio 4, 2020
From Our Own Correspondent (Myanmar)
BBC Radio 4, 2020
From Our Own Correspondent (Nagaland, India)
BBC Radio 4, 2020
From Our Own Correspondent (Arunachal Pradesh)
The Telegraph, 2020
At Home with the World's Last Headhunters