Ian Robinson
Travel writing, event reporting, places people and behind the scenes. Exotic articles from remote destinations a passion and speciality. Easy flowing, descriptive and to the point writing.
Local Availability: All areas in New Zealand and internationally by negotiation.
Media Experience
Biographical Note
Ian Robinson is a New Zealand born traveler and a travel writer with lengthy trips throughout Latin America and Asia, as well as living in the UK and Japan. Adventure travel is his passion! In 1992 he crossed Outer Mongolia alone on horseback, one of the first westerners to do so. In 2004 he completed a similar journey across Tibet. Following these journeys Ian was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. Ian prides himself on being able to get to know a place and its people on an intimate level, to be able to experience and write about both well known popular tourist destinations as well as out of the way, even remote places, often discovering new opportunities for travel destinations. Ian has a unique ability to be able to write about the ‘other side’ of often well known places, meeting quirky people in unusual settings. Ian writes with a clear, easy to read, economically descriptive style.He has written and published four books: The Coromandel, a portrait of one of New Zealand’s most beautiful and fascinating regions on which he researched the Coromandel’s past and present. You Must Die Once, the biographical account of his horseback journey across Tibet, You Must Die Once was highly commended in the Travcom travel media awards in 2007. Gantsara, alone across Mongolia, the story of his epic Mongolian adventure. Gantsara was the winner of the Travel Book of the Year award in 2005 ahead of eleven other entries, it has also been translated and published in Italy. And Days To Go, a fictional novel set in Japan. Ian has also had articles accepted for publication in magazines such as On Holiday and AA Directions.
Published Writings
- ‘The Coromandel’ Bateman NZ Ltd 2007
- ‘You Must Die Once’ Harper Collins NZ Ltd 2005
- ‘Gantsara, alone across Mongolia’ Harper Collins NZ Ltd 2004
- ‘Days To Go’ Quoin Press NZ Ltd 1999
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Contact Details
Phone: +64 9 376 5167 Mobile: 021 306 843
Post: PO Box 3967, Shortland St, Auckland, New Zealand.
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