Stephen Goodwin is the author of Dream Golf- The Making of Bandon Dunes (2006) as well as two other golf books and three novels. He served as the director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts and co-founded the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. He taught literature and creative writing at George Mason University and now lives with his wife, Robyn, in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

Chris Townsend's recent publications include The Art of Tracey Emin (co-edited with Prof. Mandy Merck, 2002) and The Art of Rachel Whiteread (2004).

Forthcoming volumes include the monographs A World at Random: The Art of Boyle Family (2005) and New Art from London (2006).

Curated exhibitions include Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion, 1970-2000 (Barbican Art Gallery, 2002) and The Ugly Show (Leeds Metropolitan University Art Gallery, 1998).

He is a lecturer in the Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Bart Jordans has been guiding, exploring treks and trekking peaks in the Himalaya, Karakoram, Hindu Kush, European Alps and on Kilimanjaro since 1984.

Originally from the Netherlands, he lived in Bhutan for over four years and in Vietnam for two. Bart is now a freelance trekking guide for several well-known companies.

When not in the mountains, he works in the outdoor gear business and writes articles on the mountains of Bhutan, on which he is a noted expert.

Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cotton Malone series. His books have been translated into 40 languages with 17,000,000 copies in 51 countries.

Steve was born and raised in Georgia, graduating from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. He was a trial lawyer for 30 years and held elective office for 14 of those years.

He is a founding member of International Thriller Writers - a group of more than 2,600 thriller writers from around the world - and served for three years as its co-president.

Kev Reynolds is a freelance writer, photojournalist and lecturer. A prolific compiler of guidebooks, his first title for Cicerone Press (Walks & Climbs in the Pyrenees) appeared in 1978; he has since produced many more titles for the same publisher, with others in the pipeline.

A member of the Outdoor Writers- Guild, the Alpine Club and Austrian Alpine Club, his passion for mountains and the countryside remains undiminished after a lifetime-s activity, and he regularly travels throughout Britain to share that enthusiasm through his lectures.