Scott Dareff migrated to the West Australian regions with his wife in 2015, since when his extensive travels to nearly every shire in this vast and remarkable state have deepened his passion and appreciation for the land, given him an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of the region and helped develop a network of contacts that leaves him well-suited to write this guide. Having been an eager user of Bradt guidebooks through his own travels through nearly 70 countries, he says 'I understand the Bradt reader, because I am the Bradt reader.' He currently works as a history and geography teacher at a high school in regional Western Australia.