Bangladesh: The Bradt Travel Guide Book Launch party, 1 Oct, Dhaka, click poster to see full size

After many months of research, photography, writing and editing, Bangladesh: The Bradt Travel Guide is finally ready to be released! Books are now on their way to Dhaka for a big launch bash, held on 1 Oct at the Australian High Commission Recreation Centre, otherwise known as the Aussie club.

We hope you can join us for this special launch event, which will also double as the normal Aussie BBQ and fundraising evening. Authors Mikey Leung and Belinda Meggitt will both be present at the event: this is your chance to meet the authors and take home a signed copy of the new guide.

We are also raising funds for our friends at Jaago, who operate a school for disadvantaged children in Dhaka and also run a hospitality training course for young adults.

Finally, we are much indebted to the Australian High Commission for allowing us to host this event using their facility.

Details
The event is open to all expat club card holders and members of the general public.

Non-club card holders MUST e-mail the Australian High Commission to register their attendance in advance at ahc.dhaka [at] dfat.gov.au.

Costs
BBQ: Tk900 (you don’t have to eat to attend); Children Tk400; Tk100 will be donated to JAAGO from adult cost.
Book Cost: Tk1,800

Questions?
mobile: 01711 591 211 // 01918 931 803
e-mail: joybangla.info [at] gmail.com

We’ve got a cover! (click here for the full size image) After a lengthy and quite competitive selection process, the front page for “Bangladesh: The Bradt Travel Guide” has finally been chosen. Like many other aspects of the book, the images were chosen in close consultation with us, the authors.. but unfortunately our images didn’t make the cover this time.

I’m glad to announce though that the picture is from a very famous Bangladeshi photographer named Shehzad Noorani. According to a profile posted on the Internet:

As a freelance documentary photographer and a consultant for national and international aid organizations, Noorani, since starting in photography in 1987, focuses on the existence of people living at the lowest rung of the social, political and economic ladder in South Asia. He has produced numerous publications and multimedia presentations. In 1999 he won the Mother Jones International Award for Daughters of Darkness, a project on women working in the sex trade in South Asia.

Like many other documentary photographers in Bangladesh, most have made their careers covering the most heart-wrenching stories this country has to offer. Today I’m glad to use this photo of Noorani’s to promote a new, positive view of Bangladesh.

In other news..
We’ve also begun the chase for advertisers inside the guide, so if you’re receiving this e-mail and would like to be positioned in a totally new guidebook for Bangladesh, contact author Mikey Leung by e-mail at joybangla.info [AT] gmail.com, or if you’re in Bangladesh, you can reach him at 01714 361 173.

The advertising submission deadilne is April 24.

Also, the advance book information is now out, in case you’re as eager as we are to see this book move off the shelves and into the hands of all those eager Bangladesh travellers. You can click here to view the JPG or click here to download the PDF (1.5MB).

You can also download the Advertising Info here (Word Doc, 352KB).