As a child Jane dreamed of intrepid adventures and encounters with exotic wildlife but it wasn’t until she was 22 and with a zoology degree to her credit that she started travelling: she organised a six-month expedition to catalogue the creatures living in Himalayan caves. To cut a very long story short, this trip lead to a parasitology then medical qualification, a husband and many more exotic trips. She experienced leeches, malaria mosquitoes, ticks and scorpions first hand and, realising how good information contributes to enjoyable travel, wrote her first travel health guide, Bugs Bites & Bowels which is now in its fifth edition. Her first book was a travel narrative, Lemurs of the Lost World.

Dr Jane has lived in various very remote corners of the globe and has spent about 11 years in South Asia. Jane’s third son made his first big trip – to Nepal – at the age of three weeks.

She currently lives in Cambridgeshire where she works as a general practitioner and medical director of a travel immunisation clinic. She now has more letters after her name than in it and teaches extensively on travel health including an annual commitment to a half-day workshop on diarrhoea at the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge. She has written a double spread feature for Wanderlust magazine since it was first launched in 1993 and her words have been published in national newspapers and the academic press.

She tweets travel health tips as @longdropdoc, her blogs are at and her author website is where there are photogalleries relating to her books.Read Less