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A recovering travel writer, Amelia was educated at the University of Cambridge. She has written for newspapers and magazines worldwide, including CNN Traveler, The Daily Telegraph, The Sun, The Sunday Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Times, Amsterdam Weekly, Egypt Today and Middle East Times, and has authored and contributed to over a dozen books for Lonely Planet. Her book The Zoo on the Road to Nablus tells the true story of the last Palestinian zoo. It received the Daily Mail Critic’s Choice, and inspired the documentary ‘Waiting for Giraffes.’ Her new book What Sheep Think About the Weather, asks: what are animals trying to say - not to each other, but to us?

Amelia lives with her husband, five children, horses, pigs, dogs, and assorted other creatures on a farm in Canada.