Hugh Thomson (writer)
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Hugh Thomson FRGS is a British travel writer, film maker and explorer. His The Green Road Into Trees: A Walk Through England won the 2014 Wainwright Prize for nature and travel writing.[1]
He was appointed as a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Oxford Brookes University in 2012–2014.[2]
He has led research expeditions in Peru exploring Inca settlements, including the discovery of Cota Coca in 2002[3] and a 2003 study of Llaqtapata.[4] He has also led filming expeditions to Mount Kilimanjaro, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Mexico.[1]
Thomson is also an award-winning film maker: his Dancing in the Street: A Rock and Roll History television documentary series was nominated for the Huw Wheldon Award For The Best Arts Programme or Series in the 1997 BAFTA awards[5] and the three-part Indian Journeys he created with William Dalrymple won the 2001 Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series.[6]
He has an MA from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.[4] His grandfathers were G. P. Thomson and W. L. Bragg, both of whom, and both their fathers J. J. Thomson and W. H. Bragg, won the Nobel prize in physics.[7][8]