Mark Elliott is an English travel writer best known for books on Azerbaijan,[1][2][3][4][5] and for unusual map-based route guides for Asia.
[7][8] Elliott's 2003 South-East Asia: The Graphic Guide, also based mostly on schematic maps, remains in considerable demand among travellers with prices for second hand copies reaching absurdly high levels (nearly US$1000 a copy in November 2009).
[12] Having written the first comprehensive English language guide to post-Soviet Azerbaijan in 1999, a book now in its 5th edition, Elliott has since been described by the press in Azerbaijan as the "legendary writer of the definitive English-language guidebook to the country"[13] Elliott's father Ian was the chairman of West Sussex County Council,[14] his mother the teacher and poet, Betty Elliott, nee Gedge.
[15] Mark graduated from Durham University where he was President of the Durham Union Society and worked on the university newspaper Palatinate at the same time as Tim Burt, Dave Anderson and Jeremy Vine.
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