Anthony Ham

Anthony Ham is one of Australia's most experienced nature and travel writers. For more than two decades, he has been travelling to the earth's wild places in search of stories, to Africa, the Amazon, the Arctic, and Outback Australia. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, BBC Travel, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly, Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR), BBC Wildlife, Lonely Planet Traveller, Africa Geographic, The Independent, Travel Africa, and elsewhere. Through his writing, Anthony's readers have observed up close Africa's most endangered elephant herd, travelled to remove villages behind al-Qaeda lines, and experienced the beginnings of Libya's long descent into chaos. Anthony has also written or co-written more than 135 travel guides for Lonely Planet, including Brazil. He believes in the power of the written word, the enduring powers of stories, and the importance of writing beautifully about important things. His first book, The Last Lions of Africa, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2020.