Jane Wilson-Howarth

Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth's passion for wildlife started when she was a toddler and led to smuggling roadkill into the house, much to her mother's disgust - she prefers flowers. Jane left South London suburbia to bag a zoology degree in Plymouth before setting off on an overland trip to Nepal. That expedition gave her a new mission: to work towards improving the lot of the poor. After qualifying as a parasitologist (from Oxford University) and as a doctor of medicine (Southampton University) she spent eleven years working on various child survival projects in remote corners of Asia.

These days she lives in Cambridgeshire with her husband, teenage sons, a pigmy hamster and a lop. She works as a GP and is medical director of a private travel clinic. As a balance to clinical work she writes life-affirming fiction with exotic themes. Jane already has three travel health guides in print as well as two travel memoirs. She continues to write extensively on travel and health including on occasion for The Independent newspapers, The Guardian and other key publications. She has written health features for Wanderlust magazine since issue one and has contributed health chapters to innumerable Bradt travel guides.