Hugh Thomson (writer)

Hugh Thomson (born 1960) is a British travel writer, film maker and explorer. His The Green Road into the Trees: A Walk Through England won the 2014 Wainwright Prize for nature and travel writing.

He was appointed as a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Oxford Brookes University in 2012–2014.

He has led research expeditions in Peru exploring Inca settlements, including the discovery of Cota Coca in 2002 and a 2003 study of Llaqtapata. He has also led filming expeditions to Mount Kilimanjaro, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Mexico.

Thomson is also an award-winning film maker: his Dancing in the Street: A Rock and Roll History television documentary series was nominated for the Huw Wheldon Award For The Best Arts Programme or Series in the 1997 BAFTA awards and the three-part Indian Journeys he created with William Dalrymple won the 2001 Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series.

He has an MA from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His grandfathers were G. P. Thomson and W. L. Bragg, both of whom, and both their fathers J. J. Thomson and W. H. Bragg, won the Nobel prize in physics.

Publications

 * The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland (2001, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 9780297842446)
 * Nanda Devi: A Journey to the Last Sanctuary (2004, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 9780297607533)
 * Cochineal Red: Travels Through Ancient Peru (2006, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 9780297645641)
 * Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico (2009, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 9780297851929)
 * 50 Wonders of the World (2009, Quercus, ISBN 9781849160032)
 * The Green Road into the Trees: An Exploration of England (2012, Preface Publishing (Random House), ISBN 9781848093324)
 * Also published as: The Green Road into the Trees: A Walk Through England


 * One Man and a Mule: Across England with a Pack Mule (2017, Preface Publishing (Random House), ISBN 1848094698)
 * Historical Peru (2019, Horizon Guides )