The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards celebrate the best travel writing and travel writers in the world. The awards include the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year and the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing. The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year was previously called Dolman Best Travel Book Award (2006-2014). The award is named after

Edward Stanford Edward Stanford (27 May 1827 3 November 1904) was the founder of Stanfords, now a pair of map and book shops based in London and Bristol, UK. Biography Born in 1827, and educated at the City of London School, Edward Stanford developed his i ...

and is sponsored by

Stanfords Stanfords is a specialist bookshop of maps and travel books in London, established in 1853 by Edward Stanford. Its collection of maps, globes, and maritime charts is considered the world's largest. It has also supplied cartography for the Brit ...

, a travel books and map store established in London in 1853. The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year is one of the two principal annual travel book awards in Britain, and the only one that is open to all writers. The other award is that made each year by the

British Guild of Travel Writers The British Guild of Travel Writers Limited is a private company limited by guarantee formed in April 2015. This private company is the successor organisation to the erstwhile voluntary association known as the British Guild of Travel Writers. ...

, but that is limited to authors who are members of the Guild. The first Dolman award was given in 2006, just two years after the only other travel book award - the

Thomas Cook Travel Book Award The Thomas Cook Travel Book Award originated as an initiative of Thomas Cook AG in 1980, with the aim of encouraging and rewarding the art of literary travel writing. The awards stopped in 2005 (2004 being the last year an award was given). As of 2 ...

which ran for 25 years - was abandoned by its sponsor. From its founding through 2014, the £1,000 to £2,500 prize was organized by the

Authors' Club The Authors' Club is a British membership organisation established as a place where writers could meet and talk. It was founded by the novelist and critic Walter Besant in 1891. It is headquartered at the National Liberal Club. The Authors' Clu ...

and was sponsored by and named after club member William Dolman. Beginning in 2015, a new sponsor Stanfords, a travel book store, was established along with an increase to £5,000 for the winner.

List of awards

The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards consist of the following: * Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, in association with The Authors' Club * Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing * Fiction with a Sense of Place * Adventure Travel Book of the Year * Travel Memoir of the Year * Children's Travel Book of the Year * Travel Blog of the Year * Photography and Illustrated Travel Book of The Year * Food & Travel Book of the Year * Innovation in Travel Publishing * New Travel Writer of the Year

Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year

= winner ---- Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year ---- 2021 *

Paolo Cognetti Paolo Cognetti (born 27 January 1978 in Milan) is an Italian writer. He started studying mathematics at university, but quit to enroll at Milan's film-making school ''Civica Scuola di Cinema «Luchino Visconti»'', where he graduated in 1999. He ...

, ''Without Ever Reaching the Summit: A Himalayan Journey'' * Erika Fatland, ''The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage'' * Taran Khan, ''Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul'' *

Nanjala Nyabola Nanjala Nyabola is a writer, political analyst, and activist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Nyabola writes extensively about African society and politics, technology, international law, and feminism for academic and non-academic publications. Her firs ...

, ''Traveling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move'' * Jini Reddy, ''Wanderland: A Search for Magic in the Landscape'' * Sophy Roberts, ''The Lost Pianos of Siberia'' * C J Schuler, ''Along the Amber Route: St Petersburg to Venice'' * Jonathan C Slaght, ''Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl'' 2020 * Robert Macfarlane, '' Underland'' * Rory Mclean, ''Pravda Ha Ha'' *

Paul Theroux Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue, '' The Great Railway Bazaar'' (1975). Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films. He ...

, ''On the Plain of Snakes'' * Nicholas Jubber, ''Epic Continent'' *

Simon Winder Simon Winder is a British writer. He is the author of several books, including a trilogy of books on the history of Central Europe: ''Germania'', ''Danubia'' and ''Lotharingia''. The second book in the trilogy, ''Danubia'', which deals with the ...

, ''Lotharingia'' * Anna Sherman, ''The Bells Of Old Tokyo'' *

Richard Bassett Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...

, ''Last Days in Old Europe'' *

Monisha Rajesh Monisha Rajesh (born 1982) is a British journalist and travel writer. Early life Rajesh was born in Norfolk, England, the child of two Indian doctors. The family moved from Sheffield to Madras, India, in 1991. After two years, "fed up with soap ...

, ''Around the World in 80 Trains'' *

Sara Wheeler Sara Diane Wheeler (born 20 March 1961) is an English travel author and biographer, noted for her accounts of polar regions. Biography Sara Wheeler was brought up in Bristol, England, and studied Classics and Modern Languages at Brasenose C ...

, ''Mud and Stars'' 2019 * William Atkins, ''The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places'' *

Ben Coates Benjamin Terrence Coates, Jr. (born August 16, 1969) is an American former football tight end who played in the National Football League for 10 seasons, primarily with the New England Patriots. He played college football at Livingstone and was ...

, ''The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps'' *

Damian Le Bas Damian Le Bas (30 January 1963, Sheffield – 9 December 2017, Worthing) was a British artist associated with the Outsider Art (or "Art Brut") label, as well a leading exponent of the "Roma Revolution" in art. Life Le Bas was of Roma heritage. ...

, ''The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain'' *

Alev Scott Alev may refer to: Alev is a Turkish given name (meaning ''flame'') for females. People named Alev include: * Alev Alatlı, Turkish economist, philosopher, columnist and bestselling novelist * Alev Croutier, Internationally acclaimed writer bas ...

, Map and Illustration by Jamie Whyte, ''Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire'' *

Witold Szablowski Witold may refer to: *Vytautas the Great Vytautas (c. 135027 October 1430), also known as Vytautas the Great ( Lithuanian: ', be, Вітаўт, ''Vitaŭt'', pl, Witold Kiejstutowicz, ''Witold Aleksander'' or ''Witold Wielki'' Ruthenian: ' ...

, ''Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days'' (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd Jones) *

Daniel Trilling Daniel Trilling is a British journalist, editor and author. He was the editor of ''New Humanist'' magazine from 2013 to 2019. He writes about migration, nationalism and human rights and is the author of ''Lights in the Distance: exile and refuge ...

, ''Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe'' 2018 *

Patrick Barkham Patrick may refer to: * Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name *Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People * Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint *Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick ...

, ''Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago'' *

Garrett Carr Garrett may refer to: Places ;United States * Garrett, Illinois * Garrett, Indiana * Garrett, Kentucky (multiple places) ** Garrett, Floyd County, Kentucky, an unincorporated community ** Garrett, Meade County, Kentucky, an unincorporated commun ...

, ''The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border'' *

Kapka Kassabova Kapka Kassabova (born in November 1973, in Bulgarian Капка Касабова) is a poet and writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction. Her mother tongue is Bulgarian, but she writes in English. Life Kapka Kassabova was born and grew up in S ...

, ''Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe'' * Kushanava Choudhury, ''The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta'' *

Philip Hoare Philip Hoare (born Patrick Kevin Philip Moore, 1958) is an English writer, especially of history and biography. He instigated the Moby Dick Big Read project. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton and Leverhulme ...

, ''Risingtidefallingstar'' *

Nick Hunt Nick may refer to: * Nick (given name) * A cricket term for a slight deviation of the ball off the edge of the bat * British slang for being arrested * British slang for a police station * British slang for stealing * Short for nickname Pla ...

, ''Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence'' *

Isambard Wilkinson Isambard is a given name. It is Norman, of Germanic origin, meaning either "iron-bright" or "iron-axe". The first element comes from ''isarn'' meaning iron (or steel). The second element comes from either ''biart-r'' (bright, glorious) or from ''ba ...

, Photographs by Chev Wilkinson, ''Travels in a Dervish Cloak'' 2017 ''no award''Award year shifted from being the year the books were published to the year the award was presented. 2016 * James Attlee, ''Station To Station: Searching for Stories On The Great Western Line'' *

Geoff Dyer Geoff Dyer (born 5 June 1958) is an English author. He has written a number of novels and non-fiction books, some of which have won literary awards. Personal background Dyer was born and raised in Cheltenham, England, as the only child of a ...

, ''White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World'' *

Elisabeth Luard Elisabeth Luard (born 1942) née Longmore is a food writer, artist and broadcaster. She is Chair Emerita of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. She was born in 1942, shortly before her father Richard Longmore was killed in action as wing ...

, ''Squirrel Pie (and other stories): Adventures in Food Across the Globe'' *

Jim Perrin Jim Perrin (born 30 March 1947), is an English rock climber and travel writer. Biography Jim Perrin was born Ernest James Perrin in Manchester, England, to a family of Huguenot descent. His father played rugby league for Salford in the late 1930 ...

, ''The Hills of Wales'' * Julian Sayarer, ''Interstate: Hitchhiking Through the State of a Nation'' *

, ''Deep South'' 2015 *

Philip Marsden Philip Marsden, also known as Philip Marsden-Smedley (born 11 May 1961), is an English travel writer and novelist. Born in Bristol, England, Marsden has a degree in anthropology and worked for some years for ''The Spectator'' magazine. He became a ...

, ''Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place'' * Helena Attlee, ''The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit'' *

Horatio Clare Horatio Clare (born 1973) is an English author known for travel, memoir, nature and children's books. He worked at the BBC as a producer on '' Front Row'' (BBC Radio 4), ''Night Waves'' and ''The Verb'' (BBC Radio 3). Clare has written memoirs s ...

, ''Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men'' *

, ''Walking the Woods and the Water: In Patrick Leigh Fermor's footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn'' * Jens Mühling, ''A Journey into Russia'' *

Elizabeth Pisani Elizabeth Pisani (born 1964) is a British-American epidemiologist, public health consultant, author and journalist. She is an academic researcher and the director of Ternyata Ltd., a public health consultancy based in London, UK. Her research in ...

, ''Indonesia Etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation'' ---- Dolman Best Travel Book Award ---- 2014 *

Oliver Bullough Oliver Bullough, (born 1977) is a British writer. Early life He grew up on a sheep farm in Mid Wales, and studied history at Oxford University.Daniloff, Nicholas. (2012)Review of the book Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the Defiant Peo ...

, ''The Last Man in Russia'' *

Patrick Leigh Fermor Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greates ...

, ''The Broken Road'' *

Charlotte Higgins Charlotte Higgins, (born 6 September 1972) is a British writer and journalist. Early life and education Higgins was born in Stoke-on-Trent, the daughter of a doctor and a nurse, and received her secondary education at a local independent scho ...

, ''Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain'' *

Iain Sinclair Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, recently within the influences of psychogeography. Biography Education Sinclair was born in Cardiff in 1943. From 1956 to 1961, he was educate ...

, ''American Smoke'' *

Sylvain Tesson Sylvain Tesson (born 26 April 1972) is a French writer and traveller born in Paris. He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books. Among his most successful works are '' The Consolations of the F ...

, '' Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga'' *

, ''O My America!'' 2013 *

Noo Saro-Wiwa Noo Saro-Wiwa is a British-Nigerian author, noted for her travel writing. She is the daughter of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Education Noo Saro-Wiwa was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and grew up in Ewell, Surrey in England. She attended ...

, ''Looking For Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria'' * Jeremy Seal, ''Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River'' *

Kathleen Jamie Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet and essayist. In 2021 she became Scotland's fourth Makar. Life and work Kathleen Jamie is a poet and essayist. Raised in Currie, near Edinburgh, she studied philosophy at the University ...

, ''Sightlines'' * A. A. Gill, ''The Golden Door: Letters to America'' * Robert MacFarlane, ''The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot'' * Michael Jacobs, ''The Robber of Memories: A River Journey Through Colombia'' 2012 *

Julia Blackburn Julia Blackburn (born 1948) is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction. She is the daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn and artist Rosalie de Meric. Julia Blackburn's bohemian and troubled upbringing is the subject of her memoir ''The Thr ...

, ''Thin Paths: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village'' *

John Gimlette John Gimlette is an English author of travel literature. He has published five books to date; ''Panther Soup: A European Journey in War and Peace'', ''Theatre Of Fish: Travels through Newfoundland and Labrador'', ''At The Tomb Of The Inflatable Pi ...

, ''Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge'' *

Jacek Hugo-Bader Jacek Aleksander Hugo-Bader (born 9 March 1957 in Sochaczew) is a Polish reporter and journalist fascinated by Russia and the Post-Soviet states, former Soviet Republics. Since 1990 he has worked for the ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' newspaper. Life and c ...

, ''White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia'' *

Olivia Laing Olivia Laing (born 14 April 1977) is a British writer, novelist and cultural critic. She is the author of four works of non-fiction, ''To the River'', ''The Trip to Echo Spring,'' '' The Lonely City'', and ''Everybody'', as well as an essay colle ...

, ''To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface'' * Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, ''Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America'' *

Colin Thubron Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, FRAS (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, ''The Times'' ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to ''The New York Review of Books'',Nicolas Jubber, ''Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah's Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan'' * Rachel Polonsky, ''Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History'' *

Katherine Russell Rich Katherine Russell Rich (November 17, 1955 – April 3, 2012) was an American autobiographical writer from New York City. Her first book, ''The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer, and Back'', told of a clash of cultures occurring when the author's bre ...

, ''Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language'' *

Graham Robb Graham Macdonald Robb FRSL (born 2 June 1958, Manchester) is a British author and critic specialising in French literature. Biography Born at Manchester, Robb attended the Royal Grammar School, Worcester, before going up to Exeter College, Ox ...

, ''Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris'' * Douglas Rogers, '' The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe'' *

, ''Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History'' 2010 *

William Blacker Lieutenant-Colonel William Blacker (1 September 1777 – 25 November 1855''Burke's Peerage'' gives information for two contemporaries named William Blacker. Page 103 gives and brother of Valentine Blacker with 1776 as birth and 20 October 1850 as ...

, ''Along the Enchanted Way'' *

, ''A Single Swallow'' *

Matthew Engel Matthew Lewis Engel (born 11 June 1951) is a British writer, journalist and editor. Early life and education Engel was born in Northampton, son of solicitor Max David Engel (1912-2005) and Betty Ruth (née Lesser). His grandfather had escaped anti ...

, ''Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain'' * Daniel Metcalfe, ''Out of Steppe'' * Susan Richards, ''Lost and Found in Russia'' *

Hugh Thomson Hugh Thomson (1 June 18607 May 1920) was an Irish Illustrator born at Coleraine near Derry. He is best known for his pen-and-ink illustrations of works by authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and J. M. Barrie. Thomson inaugurated ...

, ''Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico'' * Ian Thomson, ''The Dead Yard'' 2009 *

Alice Albinia Alice Albinia (born 1976) is an English journalist and author whose first book, '' Empires of the Indus'', won several awards. Albinia was born in London and read English Literature at Cambridge University and South Asian History at SOAS. In b ...

, ''Empires of the Indus'' * Andrew Brown, ''Fishing in Utopia'' * Richard Grant, ''Bandit Roads'' *

, ''Street Without a Name'' *

Grevel Lindop Grevel Charles Garrett Lindop (born 6 October 1948) is an English poet, academic and literary critic. Life Lindop was born in Liverpool to solicitor John Neale Lindop, LL.M. and Winifred (née Garrett), and educated at Liverpool College, then W ...

, ''Travels on the Dance Floor'' *

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 ...

, '' The Island that Dared'' 2008 *

Tim Butcher Tim Butcher (born 15 November 1967) is an English author, broadcaster and journalist. He is the author of ''Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart, Blood River'' (2007), ''Chasing the Devil'' (2010) and ''The Trigger'' (2014), travel bo ...

, ''Blood River'' *

Henry Hemming Henry Hemming (born December 1979) is an English non-fiction author. In 2017 it was announced that his book, ''M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest Spymaster'', based on the life of Maxwell Knight, would be adapted for television by Mammoth Screen w ...

, ''Misadventure in the Middle East'' * John Lucas, ''92 Acharnon Street'' * Robert Macfarlane, ''The Wild Places'' *

Christopher Robbins Christopher Robbins (19 November 1946 – 24 December 2012) was a British writer and journalist. He is best known for his 1978 bestseller '' Air America'', a non-fiction book which was made into a film in 1990. It is about the secret air ...

, ''In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared'' 2007 *

Rory McCarthy Rory McCarthy (born 4 September 1975) is a retired Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club St Martin's and with the Wexford senior inter-county team. He played in the half-back line. Early life Rory McCarthy was born ne ...

, ''Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated'' *

David McKie David McKie (born 1935) is a British journalist and historian. He was deputy editor of ''The Guardian'' and continued to write a weekly column for that paper until 4 October 2007, called "Elsewhere". Until 10 September 2005, he also wrote a sec ...

, ''Great British Bus Journeys'' * Tom Parry, ''Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback'' * Claire Scobie, '' Last Seen in Lhasa'' 2006 * Nicholas Jubber, ''The Prester Quest'' *

Joanna Kavenna Joanna Kavenna (born 1974) is an English novelist, essayist and travel writer of Welsh extraction. Her six novels have been widely rated and appreciated. Biography Welsh by family, with Scandinavian ancestry, Kavenna was born in Leicester and ...

, ''The Ice Museum'' *

Ruth Padel Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author, known for her poetic explorations of migration, both animal and human, and her involvement with classical music, wildlife conservation and Greece, ancient and modern. ...

, ''Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers'' *

Richard Lloyd Parry Richard Lloyd Parry (born 1969) is a British foreign correspondent and writer. He is the Asia Editor of ''The Times'' of London, based in Tokyo, and is the author of the non-fiction books ''In the Time of Madness'', ''People Who Eat Darkness: T ...

, ''In the Time of Madness'' *

Stevie Smith Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, '' Stevie'' by Hugh Whitemore, bas ...

, ''Pedalling to Hawaii''

Edward Stanford Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing award

A lifetime achievement award for travel writing. * 2021

* 2020

* 2019

Colin Thubron Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, FRAS (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, ''The Times'' ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to ''The New York Review of Books'',Jan Morris (Catharine) Jan MorrisJan Morris, Paul Clements, University of Wales Press, 2008, p. 7 (born James Humphry Morris; 2 October 192620 November 2020) was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She was known particularly for the ''Pax Brita ...

* 2017 ''no award'' * 2016

Michael Palin Sir Michael Edward Palin (; born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian, writer, television presenter, and public speaker. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. Since 1980, he has made a number of travel documentaries. Palin w ...

* 2015

Bill Bryson William McGuire Bryson (; born 8 December 1951) is an American–British journalist and author. Bryson has written a number of nonfiction books on topics including travel, the English language, and science. Born in the United States, he has b ...

Fiction with a Sense of Place

* 2020

Nickolas Butler Nickolas Butler is an American novelist and short story author. He is the author of four novels: ''Shotgun Lovesongs'' (2014), The Hearts of Men (2017), Little Faith (2019), and ''Godspeed'' (2021). He also authored the short story collection ''B ...

, ''Little Faith'' * 2019

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (born 28 January 1988) is a Zimbabwean writer and professor of creative writing. She is the author of ''Shadows'', a novella and ''House of Stone'', a novel. Biography Tshuma was born and grew up in Bulawayo, a major city in ...

, ''House of Stone'' * 2018 Tristan Hughes, ''Hummingbird'' * 2017 ''no award'' * 2016

Madeleine Thien Madeleine Thien (; born 1974) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist. ''The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature'' has considered her work as reflecting the increasingly trans-cultural nature of Canadian literature, exploring art, expres ...

, ''Do Not Say We Have Nothing''

Adventure Travel Book of the Year

*2020

Lara Prior-Palmer Lara Prior-Palmer (born 24 June 1994) is an athlete and writer. She is the niece of British equestrian Lucinda Green. Mongol Derby In 2013 Prior-Palmer became the first woman to win the Mongol Derby, the world's longest horse race, as well as ...

, ''Rough Magic: Riding the World's Wildest Horse Race'' *2019 Adam Weymouth, ''Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North'' *2018 Morten Strøksnes, ''Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean'' *2017 ''no award'' *2016

Levison Wood Major Levison James Wood VR (born 5 May 1982) is a British Army officer and explorer. He is best known for his extended walking expeditions in Africa, Asia and Central America. He has also undertaken numerous other overland journeys, includin ...

, ''Walking the Himalayas''

Travel Memoir of the Year

* 2020

Pico Iyer Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. He is the author of numerous books on crossing cultures including ''Video Night in Kathmandu ...

, ''A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations'' * 2019 Guy Stagg, ''The Crossway''

Children's Travel Book of the Year

*2019

Alastair Humphreys Alastair Humphreys is an English adventurer, author and motivational speaker. Over a four-year period he bicycled around the world. He was a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2012. He is responsible for the rise of the idea of the m ...

, ''Alastair Humphreys' Great Adventurers'' *2018

Katherine Rundell Katherine Rundell (born 1987) is an English author and academic. She is the author of ''Rooftoppers'', which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, and was short-listed for t ...

and illustrated by Hannah Horn, ''The Explorer'' *2017 ''no award'' *2016 Lucy Letherland, Rachel Williams & Emily Hawkins, ''Atlas of Animal Adventures''

Photography & Illustrated Travel Book of the Year

*2019

Huw Lewis-Jones Huw Lewis-Jones (born 2 May 1980) is a British historian, editor, broadcaster and art director. Formerly a historian and Curator of Art at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Lewis-Jones left Cambridge in June 2010 to pur ...

, ''The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands'' *2018 ''Londonist Mapped'' by AA Publishing *2017 ''no award'' *2016 Malachy Tallack & Katie Scott, ''The Un-Discovered Islands''

Food & Travel Book of the Year

*2020 Eleanor Ford, ''Fire Islands'' *2019

Caroline Eden Caroline Eden (''née'' Calvert; born ) was the daughter of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, and sister of Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore. She married Sir Robert Eden, the last colonial Governor of Maryland, and was the mother of S ...

, ''Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light'' *2018 Bart van Olphen, ''Bart's Fish Tales'' *2017 ''no award'' *2016 Tessa Kiros, ''Provence to Pondicherry''

Innovation in Travel Publishing

*2017-2019 ''no award'' *2016 James Cheshire & Oliver Uberti, ''Where the Animals Go''

New Travel Writer of the Year

*2019 Celia Dillow, ''Reflections of Dubai'' *2018 Alan Packer, ''The Village Sledge Run'' *2017 ''no award'' *2016 Dom Tulett, ''The Tiger's Tail''

Travel Blog of the Year

*2019 ''no award'' *2018 Dave McClane
Man Vs Globe
*2017 ''no award'' *2016 Lauren Williams
The Enjoyable Rut
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List of awards

Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year

Edward Stanford Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing award

Fiction with a Sense of Place

Adventure Travel Book of the Year

Travel Memoir of the Year

Children's Travel Book of the Year

Photography & Illustrated Travel Book of the Year

Food & Travel Book of the Year

Innovation in Travel Publishing

New Travel Writer of the Year

Travel Blog of the Year

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