Nxai Pan, Botswana

Camp's Bay, South Africa

Lake Baringo, Kenya

The Namib Desert

Sahara Desert, Niger

Steve Shelley
Publishing history


Masai Mara, Kenya

Ngorongoro, Tanzania

Loita Hills, Kenya

Praslin, Seychelles

Mountain Gorilla, Rwanda

Steve's skill as an author is in assembling information from diverse sources, tapping both published sources and original research, perceiving patterns and crystallising a coherent picture which is intellectually rigorous but accessible to the general reader. He writes from a global perspective with a distinctive voice.

Publishing history
Doing Business in Africa, an investors' guide to 18 African countries (Struik New Holland, Cape Town, 2004).
A Safari Guide to the Mammals of East and Central Africa, published by Macmillan, 1989.
Commissioned byt the Seychelles Tourist Board to write promotional features for travel magazines.
Commissioned by Barclays Bank to research and write the bank's Guide to Doing Business in Kenya.
Commissioned by the Institute of Economic Affairs to research and write an analysis of the decline of Kenya's tourist industry which was published as part of Our Problems, Our Solutions.
Commissioned by the Central Bank of Kenya to write a chapter on wildlife for the Kenya Government coffee table book Portrait of Kenya.
Editor of the Price Waterhouse Hotel Survey for Kenya.
Has written a wide range of training programmes, case studies, corporate guides and manuals covering a broad spectrum of topics and target audiences.
Editorial consultant and contributor:
- East Africa Destinations
- 'Twende' travel and lifestyle magazine
- Travel News
- Executive Magazine
- Events and Leisure

Samples of published features
Island Hopping in the Seychelles Archipelago
A Portrait of Kenya's Wildlife
A Smuggler's Tale
On the Far Side
Shopping Like an Egyptian

Please contact steve@thelonepenguin.com or call 0754 888 5576 or (+254) 0722 512016