Matthias Hanke (Author)

Matthias Hanke (* 1967 in Wolfenbüttel , Lower Saxony ) is a German journalist , author and photographer.

Life

During his bank training he discovered the desire to travel and photography. He worked in Florida (USA) for a year and also took photos for his first slide show. Since then, Hanke has designed 10 slide shows, with which he is on tour in German-speaking countries in the winter months.

In 1993 he managed to cross Africa for the first time on the Morocco - South Africa route exclusively by public transport. His first book has been published about this extreme tour. Further trips to Africa, Canada , Norway and Iran followed . In the summer of 2010 he sailed the Yukon River by canoe from its source to its mouth in the Bering Sea .

Hanke lives in Braunschweig and works as a travel journalist and book author.

Works

• Experience Africa - By public transport from Morocco to the Cape (new edition 2008)
• Mallorca - Faces of an Island (illustrated book, 1999)
• Norway - Fascination between the Northern Lights and the Midnight Sun (illustrated book, new edition 2008)
• Way of St. James - Spain's most beautiful hiking trail (illustrated book, 2007)
• Cornwall - England's sunny south (illustrated book, 2007)
• "Adventure Yukon - 3,000 km by canoe through Canada and Alaska (travel report, 2011)