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David M. Addison

A native of Banff, Scotland, David M. Addison is a graduate of Aberdeen University. As well as essays in various publications, he has written several books, mainly about his travels.

As well as a short spell teaching English as a foreign language in Poland when the Solidarity movement was at its height, he spent a year (1978-79) as an exchange teacher in Montana.

He regards his decision to apply for the exchange as one of the best things he ever did, for not only did it give him the chance to travel extensively in the US and Canada but during the course of the year he made a number of enduring friendships. His award-winning An Innocent Abroad is the first in a planned trilogy about this extraordinary year while the second, Still Innocent Abroad, was published in 2016.

Since taking early retirement (he is not as old as he looks), he has more time but less money to indulge his unquenchable thirst for travel (and his wife would say for Cabernet Sauvignon and malt whisky). He is doing his best to spend the children’s inheritance by travelling as far and wide and as often as he can.

In 2015 An Innocent Abroad received an award in the Bookbzz Prize Writer Competition for Biography and Memoir. David's most recent travels took him to the Highlands of Scotland, exploring Visit Scotland’s recently unveiled NC500, dubbed "Scotland's Route 66", and rated one of the top five most scenic road journeys in the world.

For more details about David and his work, please visit his website at www.davidmaddison.org.

Select Bibliography:

• Exploring the SWC300: A Cultural and Historical Companion to the South-West Coastal 300 Route (Stirling: Extremis Publishing, 2019).
  
• Travels Around Sorrento: Discovering the Amalfi Coast and Capri (Stirling: Extremis Publishing, 2018).
  
• Travels Through Time in Italy: Eight Cities Past and Present (Stirling: Extremis Publishing, 2017).
• Exploring the NC500: Travelling Scotland's Route 66 (Stirling: Extremis Publishing, 2017).
• Still Innocent Abroad (Stirling: Extremis Publishing, 2016).
• An Innocent Abroad: Award-Winner's Edition (Stirling: Extremis Publishing, 2015).
• The Cuban Missus Crisis (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2015).
• Confessions of a Banffshire Loon (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2013).
• An Innocent Abroad (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2011).
• Misadventures in Tuscany (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2010).
• Bananas About La Palma (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2008).
• A Meander In Menorca (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2006).