Patrick Richardson (born 27 March 1946) is a writer who has been travelling for over forty years and writing freelance travel articles for the last twenty. He has written for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Herald, The Sunday Herald and The Scotsman. He has also held several exhibitions of his travel photography, appeared on BBC Radio Four and BBC Radio Scotland, and read at various prestigious literary festivals, including the Edinburgh International Book Festival, The Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the National Library of Scotland. He continues to travel to distant parts of the world, exploring isolated traditional cultures. He published his first book, Reports From Beyond – A Journey through Life to remote Places, in 2008, which was The Herald’s Paperback of the Week and Wanderlust’s Book of the Month.