The Women Who Went Round the World

Sally Smith is a journalist and writer who has worked for various publications and media including as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail, for BBC News in England and ABC News in Australia. She was named Business Writer of the Year, has a Churchill Fellowship, is an established author with books published by Pelham Books, Rigby Books and The History Press and is a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.. She has had a distinguished career in various aviation sports, representing both Great Britain and Australia in skydiving and ballooning and being awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society’s 2024 Women in Aviation, Aerospace and Space award.

Along with aviation and sky sports, Sally has devoted much of her life to travel. She has lived on four continents, visited 72 countries and worked in major cities around the world from Cairo to Singapore and Tokyo to Perth, Western Australia. She now continues to write from her home base in Somerset, UK.