Mike Gerrard (Author of National Geographic Traveler)

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Mike Gerrard

欧宝娱乐 Author

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St Helens, The United Kingdom

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Travel, Nonfiction, Drinks

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March 2023

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Mike Gerrard is the author of Cask Strength: The Story of the Barrel, the Secret Ingredient in your Drink, out in July 2023 from the Matt Holt imprint of BenBella Books.

Before branching out into writing about spirits (the kind you drink), Mike was a prolific and award-winning travel writer.

AWARDS
I鈥檝e written on travel for newspapers, magazines and websites in the UK, the USA, Australia, Africa and Asia. I鈥檝e won several awards for my writing and photojournalism:

Travel Distilled gained 3rd place in the AITO Travel Blogger of the Year Awards
A Travelex Award for Best Consumer Magazine Feature. The story, for London鈥檚 Time Out, was about eating snake in China and is now the title piece in my collection of travel writing, Snakes Alive!
A British Mike Gerrard is the author of Cask Strength: The Story of the Barrel, the Secret Ingredient in your Drink, out in July 2023 from the Matt Holt imprint of BenBella Books.

Before branching out into writing about spirits (the kind you drink), Mike was a prolific and award-winning travel writer.

AWARDS
I鈥檝e written on travel for newspapers, magazines and websites in the UK, the USA, Australia, Africa and Asia. I鈥檝e won several awards for my writing and photojournalism:

Travel Distilled gained 3rd place in the AITO Travel Blogger of the Year Awards
A Travelex Award for Best Consumer Magazine Feature. The story, for London鈥檚 Time Out, was about eating snake in China and is now the title piece in my collection of travel writing, Snakes Alive!
A British Guild of Travel Writers Award
Two Awards for Excellence from the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild
A Benjamin Franklin Award in the USA for a guidebook to Paris
AITO Online Travel Writer of the Year
Named as one of the 50 Most Influential Travel Journalists in the UK by the Press Gazette
GUIDEBOOKS
I鈥檝e also written or contributed to over 40 guidebooks for major travel publishers, including the AA, AAA, National Geographic, Fodor鈥檚, Insight, Dorling Kindersley, Thomas Cook, Michelin, Moon Guides and many more.

FOOD AND DRINK
I have always loved writing about food and drink for the travel pages, and as well as visiting distilleries I鈥檝e toured vineyards in France, Greece, New Zealand, the UK and even Arizona. I鈥檝e toured breweries in many countries, written about Bernachon鈥檚 chocolate shop in Lyon, visited the Champagne region of France and the sherry bodegas of Jerez. I鈥檝e interviewed chefs including Raymond Blanc and Alain Ducasse, and worked for a week as a waiter in a taverna in the Greek islands. (As a result I now leave bigger tips.)

EXOTIC TRAVELS
My more exotic travels have taken me camel-trekking in the Sinai Desert, walking in the Great Rift Valley of Tanzania to raise money for charity, learning to jive in Barcelona, looking for orang-utans in the rain forests of Sumatra and staying with a farming family in China.

OTHER WRITING
As well as hundreds of travel pieces and dozens of guidebooks, I鈥檝e also written a podcast for American Express, worked on mapping software for Microsoft, written hotel reviews for Google, written a crime novel, a collection of travel writing, an erotic novel, and three radio plays for the BBC. ...more

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Mike Gerrard's Blog: Travel Distilled

The Story Behind Cask Strength

Although my author profile says I only joined in March 2023, I've been a member of 欧宝娱乐 for years, as a reader. With my first proper non-travel book coming out in July 2023, I thought it time I added myself as an author too.

The book is Cask Strength: The Story of the Barrel, the Secret Ingredient in your Drink. I'll naturally be giving it the occasional plug. Who wouldn't? But here's the stor Read more of this blog post »

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Published on March 07, 2023 13:28 • Tags: barrels, bourbon, drinks, non-fiction, spirits, whisky

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	National Geographic Traveler: Greece, 2d Ed. 4.11 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pacific Coast Highway Hotels 2013 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Barron's The Traveler's Atlas Europe 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris: A City Revealed by Mike Gerrard (欧宝娱乐 Author), Donna Dailey 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Colors of Paris 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tunisia Travel Guide 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corfu and Beyond Travel Guide by Mike Gerrard (欧宝娱乐 Author), Donna Dailey 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snakes Alive: and Other Travel Writing 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Globetrotter Corfu Travel Pack really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten Best Day Trips from London by Mike Gerrard (欧宝娱乐 Author), Donna Dailey 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars