Oliver has been travelling to France since the tender age of two, and over the last decade his writing has carried him from the rural corners of the Lot Valley to the snowy hump of Mont Blanc and the chestnut forests of Corsica. He has worked on several previous editions of the France guide, has plumbed the depths of prehistoric caves in the Vézère Valley, wandered the hallways of obscure Loire châteaux, clambered to the top of dormant volcanoes in the Massif Central and conquered the old mule track in the spectacular Gorges de Spelunca. When he's not out on the road, Oliver lives and works in Cornwall as a writer and photographer.