Hugh Thomson (writer)

Andean explorers Hugh Thompson, John Hemming, Vince Lee, and John Beauclerk in 2010

Hugh Thomson FRGS (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.[1]

He was appointed as a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Oxford Brookes University in 2012–2014.[2]

He has led research expeditions in Peru exploring Inca settlements, including the discovery of Cota Coca in 2002[3] and a 2003 study of Llaqtapata.[4] He has also led filming expeditions to Mount Kilimanjaro, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Mexico.[1]

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[5] and the three-part Indian Journeys he created with William Dalrymple won the 2001 Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series.[6]

He has an MA from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.[4] 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.[7][8]

  1. ^ a b "2014 winner". The Wainwright Prize. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
    "The Green Road into Trees". Wainwright Prize. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Hugh Thomson". Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Major New Inca Site Discovered (RGS Press release)". 6 June 2002. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  4. ^ a b Malville, J. McKim; Thomson, Hugh; Ziegler, Gary (2004). "Machu Picchu's Observatory: the Re-Discovery of Llactapata and its Sun-Temple". Retrieved 18 July 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) a longer English version of the article that was first published in the Revista Andina (2004, #39), with the title "El redescubrimiento de Llactapata, antiguo observatorio de Machu Picchu"
  5. ^ "Television: Huw Wheldon Award For The Best Arts Programme or Series in 1997". BAFTA. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  6. ^ "The Grierson Awards 2000/2001: Winners". The Grierson Trust. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
  7. ^ Thomson, Hugh (2012). The Green Road into the Trees. Preface publishing. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-848-09332-4.
  8. ^ Thomson, Hugh (9 February 2013). "FAQs". Hugh Thomson. Retrieved 14 August 2016.