| | Author of our guide to Iraq and a close friend of Bradt, beloved Geoff Hann has been a traveller all his life.
He has taken travellers with him all over the lesser explored places in the world for 50 years, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria... the list goes on. He has been blown up by the Taliban, shot at by the Syrians and was caught up in the Iranian Revolution.
But he always brought everyone home safely.
At the age of 85 he was probably the world's oldest tour leader, heading up one last hurrah to his beloved Iraq before retirement. At the end of a wonderful trip he suffered a severe stroke and is now lying in hospital in Baghdad, unable to speak, miles from home and alone. All sorts of bureaucratic complications have so far prevented his evacuation and costs are mounting up.
We need to bring him home safely.
Hilary Bradt writes: “I have known Geoff since the 1980s when he was one of the first people to run tours in Madagascar. When we published our first landmark guide to Iraq in 2002 he was the obvious choice for co-author and the latest edition of his guide was published earlier this year. He is one of our most faithful and esteemed authors. We always chatted at travel fairs, and though the word ‘retirement’ was sometimes mentioned, it was clear that this was not going to feature in Geoff’s life for a while. It is literally a cruel stroke of fate that his last trip should have ended like this.
Geoff’s adventurous spirit is something Bradt and our followers share with him. It’s why we do what we do.” Please give whatever you can, a great explorer, a great traveller and a great man deserves to end his journey at home.
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