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On a barge in the Amazon River in 1974, everything began. Bradt Guides and her then-husband George made the bold decision to write about the hiking trails they discovered in the Andes while on an 18-month trip through South America. The very first descriptions of the Inca Trail can be found in Backpacking Along Ancient Ways in Bolivia and Peru. It marked the beginning of a colorful journey that led to becoming one of the world's most beloved travel publishers;. Hilary quickly established herself as a true travel pioneer, and in the 1980s, she began publishing guides written by other authors to destinations that other travel publishers had overlooked. After Vietnam, Czechoslovakia, and Madagascar, they published the first guide. Bradt Guides began their extensive coverage of Africa in the 1990s: Eritrea, Uganda, Tanzania, and South Africa.