The Bumper Book of Vitali’s Travels Thirty Years of Globe-Trotting (1990 – 2020) Electronic Press Kit BOOK INFORMATION The Bumper Book of Vitali’s Travels Thirty Years of Globe-Trotting (1990 – 2020) Award-winning writer Vitali Vitaliev has been exploring the world and writing about his experiences for thirty years. Now you can read some of his very best work, collected into one volume. The sheer scope of Vitali’s wanderings is amazing, and The Bumper Book of Vitali’s Travels: Thirty Years of Globe-Trotting (1990 – 2020) will take you to all five continents and to hundreds of places. As travel remains impossible for many of us because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Bumper Book of Vitali’s Travels allows us to travel vicariously, to explore virtually, to follow along as Vitali delves into places both well-known and entirely obscure, some of which Vitali himself was the first to discover – from his first trip outside the USSR, when he took a train from Moscow to Britain, to a final journey to a Slovenian/Italian town just as lockdown started to shutter Europe in March 2020. The Bumper Book of Vitali’s Travels explores Vitali’s irrepressible passion for travel – his ‘dromomania’ – which was driven by the fact that he spent the first three years of his life confined within a ‘secret’ Soviet town behind barbed wire, a town that did not appear on any maps. During his career he filed reports and travel features for various newspapers and magazines from America, Australia, South East Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern and Southern Ireland, and numerous islands, including the Falklands. He visited enclaves and micronations, got lost and nearly froze to death on a Swiss mountain, narrowly avoided being caught up in a pub shootout in Northern Ireland, wrote about the drinking habits of Eastern Europeans, and visited locations significant to authors that he loves. All this is included in the Bumper Book. Vitali also writes about his favourite places – and his worst ever journey – and gives some advice for those wishing to follow in his footsteps and become a travel journalist. The Bumper Book of Vitali’s Travels Thirty Years of Globe-Trotting (1990 – 2020) Electronic Press Kit AUTHOR INFORMATION Vitali Vitaliev was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He first made a name for himself in the then Soviet Union, writing satirical journalism in Krokodil and other publications, exposing the activities of organised crime and the all-permeating corruption in the collapsing country. His fearless stance ultimately led to his defection in 1990. He has appeared regularly on TV and radio in the UK (Have I Got News For You, Saturday Night Clive, After Dark, Start the Week), was a writer/researcher for QI and has contributed to newspapers and magazines all over the world. He is the author of thirteen books, written in English and translated into a number of foreign languages, including German, Japanese, Russian, Finnish and Italian. He has lived and worked in Russia, England, Scotland, Australia and Ireland and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Literary Fund. Praise for Vitali Vitaliev: ‘Vitali Vitaliev is a star in the making.’ TIME MAGAZINE ‘Vitaliev has an irrepressible sense of humour.’ THE GUARDIAN ‘With the charm of Michael Palin, the wit of Clive Anderson, this man is adorable.’ TIME OUT ‘Vitali Vitaliev is that rare thing: a comic writer who is also serious... He is a great traveling companion.’ DOUGLAS KENNEDY ‘Vitaliev transcends his genre, producing a new travel writing of the soul, a journey with lessons about what really matters in life. That makes it literature.’ LITERARY REVIEW ‘Vitaliev is a genial companion. His tone is immensely likeable... I was sorry when the journey ended, and wanted to start the rolling, rocking ride all over again.’ INDEPENDENT The Bumper Book of Vitali’s Travels Thirty Years of Globe-Trotting (1990 – 2020) Electronic Press Kit TECHNICAL DETAILS Kindle Edition: * Price: tbc * Publisher: Thrust Books * Sold by: Amazon Kindle Store * Language: English * ISBN: 978-1-912741-08-3 Paperback Edition: * Price: £14.99/$16.99 * Publisher: Thrust Books * Sold by: Amazon Store * Language: English * Pages: 650 * ISBN: 978-1-912741-09-0