Mark Rowe (markrowe.eu) is an environmental and outdoors journalist and writer who is the author of Bradt’s Orkney, Outer Hebrides and Isle of Wight (Slow Travel) guidebooks. He is the dossiers author for Geographical, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, where he writes on issues ranging from migration to poverty and climate change and sustainable tourism. Rowe contributes regularly to Hidden Europe and National Geographic Traveller magazines, and to Walk, the magazine of The Ramblers, where his work has included an in-depth feature on the new Hebridean Way across the Outer Hebrides. For several years he has written walking booklets and reports for various conservation organisations, such as the Wildlife Trusts, the National Trust, WWF and United Nations environmental agencies, on themes from climate change to coastal wildlife. In 2019 he published Slow Wight, an online guide to walks, food, drink and wildlife on the Isle of Wight.