About the Author:
Fiona Caulfield is the creator of the Love Travel brand of guidebooks, designed for luxury vagabonds. The Indian series is now regarded as the flag bearer of India guides and are the only luxury guides for India. Fiona is a true citizen of the world. Born in Australia, she has lived in the UK, the USA and Canada and since 2004 had been based in India. Fiona has a high profile global career as a futurist and branding consultant and is an avid traveller and explorer. A self-confessed luxury vagabond, she has a discerning eye for the singular experiences that set a destination apart.She is also a highly regarded speaker having presented The Future of Travel Writing in Hong Kong for the Asia Society and in October 2011 was an active participant in the Ubud Writers Festival. She chaired a session, Out of India as well as participating in two panels, The Power of e and Time Travel . Love Jaipur, Rajasthan was the best selling book at the Jaipur Literature Festival, Asia s leading literature event. As well as being the founder and CEO of Love Travel Guides, Fiona writes for leading international titles including Departures, DestinAsia and in-flight magazines for Qantas, Singapore Airlines and Gulf Air. She is a contributor to Conde Nast Travellers Hot List and Gold list annually reviewing the best hotels in the world. Additionally, she contributes to leading travel websites including Indagare.com, Area Daily and is consulting to a TV series for the Discovery Channel, the channel broadcasts to over 133 million households in 20 countries across Asia Pacific.
Review:
These cherishable guides are a gold mine of local know how. I was so impressed. For one thing, it's their appearance: each is hand-bound using old Indian paper making techniques, with a hand-woven, khadi cover and sold in a khadi pouch with a silk trim. I cherish the slubbed pages and rough hewen edges. Another reason I rely on them is because Caulfield's local knowledge is compelling, especially her encyclopedic shopping savvy - always handy in India. I'll never shop in India again without her. The loving way she compiled them is a rarity in the mass-produced guide book market --Financial Times UK
Love Story: We know a thing or two about guidebooks so thought it appropriate to give props to the insightful, Indian- centric Love Travel Guides series. Each book is beautifully printed and teeming with tips that could only be gleaned by local knowledge --Wallpaper
Fiona Caulfield's Love Guides are beautifully produced, thoughtful guides to the truly special places and activities, treasured by locals, that make the visitor fall in love with the city. Most guidebook publishers aspire to give the reader insider, local wisdom on the best places to have an authentic experience, but few do more than recycle the same well-trodden sites, restaurants, shops and hotels. Caulfied's beautifully designed and crafted books set a very high bar for her competitors -- they are without question the best city guides for the discerning traveller to anywhere that we have seen --Globe Corner, USA
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