Laurence Mitchell is a travel writer and photographer who specialises in places that lie well away from more familiar tourist territory: transition zones and cultural frontiers like the Balkans and Central Asia.

He has been visiting Serbia since it was part of the former Yugoslavia and Tito was in charge and knows the Balkan region extremely well having visited both Serbia and the other countries of the region many times over the past decade and a half.

With a keen interest in natural history, as well as the arts, he is eager to convey to others the wealth of cultural and natural offerings that often underrated Serbia has to offer visitors.

In addition to Serbia, Laurence has written several other guidebooks for Bradt as well as a couple of walking guides. He also frequently contributes articles to magazines and is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers and the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild.