UK native Ben Illis is a freelance writer and photographer, specializing in travel, food & drink, style and wildlife, whose work has appeared in The Daily Telegraph, Elle Magazine, The Independent, Wild Travel Magazine and online atwww.stylebible.com and www.theglassmagazine.com, among others. He has also written, photographed and contributed to several guidebooks for Time Out, Hg2, Explorer & Frommers. Although happy writing about high thread count bed sheets and killer cocktails, Ben is at his happiest lost up a jungle somewhere, grappling (photographically) with some obscure piece of wildlife and dreaming of the inevitable high thread count bed sheets and killer cocktails that lie at the end of his trip. You can find out more about Ben on his website, www.benillis.com.