Singapore

Daniel Robinson has been writing about travel in southeast Asia for over three decades, including authoring and co-authoring scores of guidebooks. His award-winning, pioneering Lonely Planet guides to Vietnam and Cambodia helped introduce Indochina to tourists and backpackers in the early 1990s, and his travel writing has been translated into ten languages. Throughout his career, Daniel has used Singapore as his regional base, where his wife was a professor at the national university. This has given him a front-row seat as the island-state has risen from the smallest of the 'Asian tigers' to one of the world's most dynamic and successful economies – and, thanks to land reclamation, has grown from 680 km2 to 734 km2. Over the decades, across many dozens of visits, Daniel has explored Singapore's lesser-known sights – back alleys, rainforest trails, bike paths and possibly haunted ruins – with adventurous Singaporean friends. Singapore is Robinson’s first Bradt guidebook.