Harry Bucknall

Harry Bucknall was born in 1965 and brought up in Dorset. Travel has been an indelible part of his life since early childhood summers spent exploring the Poole Harbour archipelago in a Mirror dinghy. Educated at Harrow and the Royal Militar Academy, Sandhurst, he served as a regular officer in the Coldstream Guards.

As a freelance travel writer, he has contributed to both the international and national press. Harry’s first book, In the Dolphin’s Wake, about his journey from Venice to Istanbul through the Greek Islands, was published in 2011.