ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Natascha Scott-Stokes established herself as a pioneering traveller in 1989, when she became the first woman to travel the length of the Amazon River alone, from its headwaters in the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic off Brazil. On her return, she wrote An Amazon and a Donkey (London, Century, 1991) to popular acclaim. Soon afterwards, she based herself in Guatemala, where she not only met the Quebecois father of her two sons, but also wrote Chickenbus Journey: False Paradise in Guatemala (Norwich, Remsasch Press, 2006), and co-authored two guide books.

Having grown up in a divided Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall inspired her to take a journey into history by bicycle, following an ancient trade route for amber through the newly accessible countries of Eastern Europe and The Amber Trail was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in London, in 1993.

Natascha Scott-Stokes emigrated from England to Chile in 2006, but her family’s connection with the country goes right back to the 19th century, when her great-great-grandfather arrived in Valparaíso in 1873, with a contract to install the first submarine telecommunications cable between Peru and Chile.

The author has a Masters in Latin American history and archaeology from London University and is a member of various professional associations, including US-based Biographers International; the Chilean Translators’ Association; and the Society of Authors in the UK. She has written about Latin America since 1986 and is the author of a number of travel books, as well as a biography of the renowned butterfly collector Margaret Fountaine, whose legacy, by an extraordinary twist of fate, ended up in Albuquerque New Mexico.

Her first book to be published in the USA by the University of New Mexico Press is Tales from the Sharp End: A Portrait of Chile, due in September 2024, which has already been haled “a witty, richly colored gaze at Chile from within” by the New York Times correspondent for Chile, Pascale Bonnefoy.

She is available for non-fiction translations from German to English and Spanish to English, especially humanities, tourism and art texts.

www.nataschascottstokes.com