Stu Lloyd
Stu Lloyd is a professional travel writer with more than 24 years experience
and has written numerous stories for leading newspapers and journals both
in Australia and internationally, including The Australian, Sydney
Morning Herald, National Geographic Traveler, South China Morning Post,
Sunday
Times, The Open Road and New Zealand Herald among others. His specialities
include adventure and soft-adventure travel, military history, colonial
history and tropical destinations in the Asia/Pacific region. Stu spent
13 years living in South-East Asia, including a decade in Singapore. His
travel story ‘Walking Matilda’ on the Sandakan Death Marches
was featured in The Australian in October 2006. He has excellent contacts
with historians and battlefield tour guides in South-East Asia. Based
in Sydney, Stu leads sell-out ‘POW Experience’ Tours to South-East
Asia for NRMA Touring Services as well as hosting tours to other South-East
Asian destinations. Stu is the author of five published books including
three editions of Hardship Posting — True Tales of Expat Misadventure
in Asia which have sold in excess of 65 000 copies to date.
Stu's latest book, The Missing Years: a POW's Story from Changi to Hellfire Pass, will be published by Rosenberg Publishing in early 2009.
For more information about Stu go to www.stulloyd.com.