Amelia Thomas

Amelia Thomas is a Cambridge University-educated British author, naturalist and journalist, who lives with her Finnish husband and five children on a farm in Nova Scotia, Canada. A former travel writer, she has written and contributed to more than a dozen books for Lonely Planet, and has worked for newspapers and magazines worldwide. Her first non-fiction book, The Zoo on the Road to Nablus, was a Daily Mail Critic’s Choice and tells the true story of the last Palestinian zoo.

Amelia is a lifetime animal-lover: she once bought a wallaby by accident from a Dutch classifieds ad, took home a stray budgie who flew into the ‘Cat Act’ at a Russian circus, saved an Afghan Hound from neglect in Belgium and a three-legged stray kitten from the streets of Jerusalem, and rescued dozens of puppies from beside highways in rural India. She is an amateur horse trainer, holds a diploma in Equine Psychology and practices equine bodywork for several charitable organizations.