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Due North: A Collection of Travel Observations, Reflections, and Snapshots Across Color, Cultures, and Continents Paperback – 7 April 2017

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2018 Lowell Thomas Gold Award Winner - Best Travel Book Due North is a collection of travel observations, reflections, and snapshots spanning two decades across colors, cultures, and continents by award-winning travel writer and photographer Lola Akinmade Åkerström.

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“It would have been enough for Lola Akinmade Åkerström to simply share her gift through her photographs. That she chose to also share her unique insights and the stories behind those incredible photos is our luck. In Due North, her curious spirit shines through, along with her journalistic abilities to quickly read the people she meets and attempt to understand each world she enters. With each story, you sense her initial feelings of “other” and move with her to notions of understanding. She brings a humanness to the page and you feel completely cared for as she guides you through immediately relatable stories in distant lands. This book isn’t one you’ll be able to read quickly. Each of these stories deserve a cup of tea and a Sunday morning.”...Heather Greenwood Davis, Award-winning travel writer and contributing editor at National Geographic Traveler

“Lola makes you want more than just to explore the world. Her stories incite your desire to travel deeply, form connections with people, and live life with her openness and love for all people. The joy that is Lola’s photography punctuates each gorgeous story from her life. It will move you as you can’t help but think ‘I want to go there!’”...Leigh Shulman, Author, writing coach and founder of Creative Revolution writing retreats for women

“Due North is a book of color, poetry, and love—a love for places, objects, and losing oneself in the greatness of the globe. Lola has a magic eye for all beauty, both simple and strange, and she shares it so well. This is an uplifting book made for all those who desire for more beauty in their lives. Surely, it is a gift to see the world through Lola’s eyes.”...Andrew Evans, Award-winning author, travel writer, and TV host, National Geographic Channel

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Having lived on three different continents - Africa, North America, and now Europe - for extended periods of time, Lola Akinmade Åkerström is drawn to the complexities and nuances of culture and how they manifest themselves within relationships.

She holds a master's degree in Information Systems from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Lola worked as a consultant and programmer for over a decade before following her dreams of becoming a travel writer and photographer, exploring various cultures through food, tradition, and lifestyle.

Today, she's an award-winning writer, speaker, and photographer represented by National Geographic Creative. She regularly contributes to high profile publications such as AFAR, BBC, The Guardian, Lonely Planet, Travel ] Leisure and National Geographic Traveller - www.akinmade.com

She has received photography and writing awards, including recognition from the Society of American Travel Writers and North American Travel Journalists Association, to name a few. In addition,

Lola is the editor of Slow Travel Stockholm, an online magazine dedicated to exploring Sweden's capital city in depth (www.slowtravelstockholm.com).

She lives in Stockholm and blogs at www.lolaakinmade.com

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Geotraveler Media Sweden; 1st edition (7 April 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9198391305
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9198391305
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.59 x 1.07 x 21.59 cm

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Having lived on three different continents — Africa, North America, and now Europe — for extended periods of time, Nigerian-American author Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström is drawn to the complexities and nuances of culture and how they manifest themselves within relationships - www.akinmade.com

Based in Sweden, Lọlá is an international-bestselling and award-winning visual storyteller, speaker, and photographer. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, Sunday Times Travel, The Telegraph, New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Slate, Travel Channel, Adventure Magazine, Lonely Planet, amongst others. In addition to contributing to several books, she is the author of the following books–—2018 Lowell Thomas Award winner for best travel book, DUE NORTH, and international-bestselling LAGOM: Swedish Secret of Living Well, available in over 17 foreign language editions.

She has been recognized with multiple awards for her work, including being named a 2022 Hasselblad Heroine and receiving the 2018 Travel Photographer of the Year Bill Muster Award. She was honored with a MIPAD 100 (Most Influential People of African Descent) Award within media and culture in 2018. She contributed to National Geographic's Image Collection.

She is based in Stockholm and tweets at @LolaAkinmade.

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I wish EVERY travel book had a voice like hers.

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I have read and re-read this book between my own travels, and again now during this period of lockdown wanderlust!

I try not to bash the (mostly white) male, elitist voices drowning the travel writing field, because I understand they paved much of the way for the genre. But FINALLY I get to read fresh voices like THIS!

She brings not only the characters and geography of these lesser written regions to life, but the narrator behind the stories is so relatable that I feel I am finally traveling with a fellow human through a NON-anthropological lens.

This should be taught to every aspiring travel writer: an inspiration on how to essay, photograph, and even market a genuinely authentic self.

As I was once privileged enough to hear Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile, the Poet Laureate of South Africa, state: “The start-to-finish of the publishing world is a colonial model that demands change. It must be re-created from who controls the forests, the paper, the supply chain, and publishing houses.” This book proves that a woman of color can create, produce, market, and sell a book not only equal to, but greater than, many travel tomes of our time.

Amen, and pass the Lola Akinmade Akerstrom please. We should all be following her work, and her example!

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Beautiful.

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Simply beautiful. I especially love the love story at the end. Everyone should be so lucky to be so blessed.

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Fantastic Book

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Your mind can travel with this excellently written book

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The inspiration I needed

Reviewed in the United States on 15 April 2017

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I LOVE this book! The photos, the stories, the personal touch......All so nicely put together in one book. The author did an amazing job. I hope this is the beginning of many writings.

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GoldSisi

A book filled with personality

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I purchased the kindle version and the pictures are simply stunning even when viewed from a phone. I really enjoyed following the author around the world through her mashup of personal stories. Fun read!

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