Author(s): Danny Gardner

Travel Stories

Danny Gardner is a poet, novelist and freelance journalist. He was born in Tasmania but has lived in Sydney since 1983. He has published three books of poetry and has written three novels and a memoir of his father. His freelance journalism on art, sport and travel has been widely published. Pieces in this book have appeared (though not necessarily in this form) in The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph, Australian Playboy, Holiday and Travel, Travel Away, Panorama (Ansett Airlines), Nine to Five, Outback, Cream of the Troubadour (UK) and Southern Partners (Papua New Guinea). These are stories born on the run, Danny Gardner on assignment or pursuing an idiosyncratic sense of challenge, inhabiting various social situations and settings with literary, artistic and sporting, even culinary, references. This is travel by foot, by car alone or with family, by bus, train and plane solo and in company across five continents over thirty-five years.