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• Adventure Travel Writer • Occassionally Counts Penguins •
Peter John Watson is an adventure travel writer and co-founder of the outdoor travel blog Atlas & Boots. He specialises in polar and expedition travel and has explored Greenland, Svalbard, Alaska and Antarctica, where he spent three months living and working at Port Lockroy.
A keen trekker and mountaineer, Peter has visited more than 100 countries across all seven continents and climbed five of the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each continent.
His writing has been featured by The Guardian, The Telegraph, BBC Travel, The Independent, Lonely Planet, National Geographic and Fodor’s, among others.
Peter’s debut book, Counting Penguins: How a Penguin Colony Stole My Heart and Changed My Life, is a work of narrative non-fiction inspired by his time living and working at Port Lockroy in Antarctica.
He has also contributed to several travel anthologies and guidebooks, including DK Travel’s Europe by Train; The Rough Guide to Slow Travel in Europe; several DK Eyewitness travel books; and Lonely Planet’s Ultimate United Kingdom Travelist and Best in Travel series.
Peter is also an experienced travel and landscape photographer. His images have appeared in magazines, newspapers, journals and books.
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