Teresa Fisher

Teresa Fisher is a National Geographic author and freelance travel writer based in Portsmouth, UK. She has been leading expeditions for National Geographic for over a decade, specializing in European cities, adventure travel to far-flung destinations and all things Alpine. Her stories have taken her around the globe, researching and documenting wildlife and culture in some of the world’s more remote places. Highlights include tracking orangutan in eastern Sabah, and jaguars by dugout canoe in Guyana; backpacking throughout Japan; and being part of the first team of husky mushers to cross from Finland into Russia. She has also worked for Sotheby’s in London, and has lived in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland and Taiwan as a cross-cultural communications trainer.

 

Teresa has penned more than 30 guidebooks and half a dozen children’s educational books on a wide variety of destinations from Europe to Japan, for publishers such as Lonely Planet, Frommer’s, Fodor’s, and National Geographic Traveler Switzerland. She is a member of The British Guild of Travel Writers and The Arts Society, a Royal Horticultural Society medallist and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.