Flint embarks on flight-free travel journey with Coffey

Flint has landed a new book on flight-free travel from Helen Coffey, travel editor at the Independent. 

Simon Wright, commissioning editor, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, including Canada, to Zero Altitude: How I Learned to Fly Less and Travel More, from Martin Redfern at Northbank Talent Management. It will publish on 26th May. 

It is described by the publisher as “part climate-change investigation, part travel memoir” and follows Coffey as she journeys as far as she can in the course of her job as a travel journalist, all without getting on a single flight. Instead she uses trains, cars, boats and bikes and meets climate experts and activists at the forefront of the burgeoning flight-free movement.  

Coffey said: “What started as an offbeat New Year’s resolution to travel as much as possible without flying, quickly turned into one of the biggest challenges and most exciting adventures of my life. It also lit a passion in me to try to convince as many fellow travel lovers as possible that staying grounded is not only totally doable, but offers a whole new world of experiences you simply don’t get at 30,000ft. I’m delighted that Simon and the team at Flint will be publishing Zero Altitude.” 

Wright said: “The response to Helen’s commitment to sustainable travel journalism at the Independent has been phenomenal. In her joyous first book she shares her flight-free travel adventures with characteristic wit and infectious enthusiasm. We at Flint Books can’t wait to publish it.”