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Tim Richards

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Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia

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Travel, History, Fantasy

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Tim Richards is a freelance travel writer whose work has appeared in publications around the world, including Lonely Planet’s guidebooks.

He fell into travel writing after living and teaching in Egypt and Poland, and is especially drawn to the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. He’s a light-packing obsessive, and loves chasing down a story with a historical angle.

Tim lives in Melbourne’s lively central business district with his novelist wife, Narrelle M Harris.

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	Eastern Europe by Mara Vorhees (Goodreads Author), Tim Richards (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 1989 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[POLAND] by (Author)Baker, Mark on Apr-01-12 by Lonely Planet, Mark Baker, Marc di Duca 4.03 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1993 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heading South: Far North Queensland to Western Australia by Rail 3.88 avg rating — 50 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mind the Gap 2.89 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Have Here the Homicide 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Train to Anywhere it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ultimate Train Journeys: World it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Am a Bond Villain: A Travel Writer's Strange Affair With Britain & Ireland 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kick of Stalin's Cow: Travels in Post-Communist Poland 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poland (Lonely Planet Country Guides) by Neal Bedford (1-May-2008) Paperback liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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A Small Place in Italy: Discover a Lush and Witty Memoir of a Bygone Era in the Apuan Alps

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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide

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Tim Richards rated a book it was amazing Latitude: The astonishing journey to discover the shape of the earth by Nicholas Crane	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“My second law of long-distance train travel is to get up early enough to use the shower before anyone else does, so you encounter it while it’s pristine. (The first is never to buy coffee at a train station.)”
― Tim Richards, Heading South: Far North Queensland to Western Australia by Rail

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