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Joe Cummings (born September 5, 1952) is an American travel writer. He has lived in Thailand for many years, and has written numerous guidebooks for Lonely Planet. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Lonely Planet guide books. Lonely Planet's online community, the Thorn Tree, [23] was created in 1996. It is named for a Naivasha thorn tree (Acacia xanthophloea) that has been used as a message board for the city of Nairobi, Kenya since 1902. [24] The tree still exists in the Stanley Hotel, Nairobi.
After travelling across Europe with Maureen Wheeler, they arrived in Melbourne in 1972 and put out their first book, Across Asia on the Cheap in 1973. [4] This would grow into the Lonely Planet empire, a name derived from a misheard Joe Cocker song (the lyric was, in fact, "lovely planet"). [2] They married and had two children, Tashi and ...
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He met his first wife, Hyung Poon, whilst working on a guidebook in South Korea.They married in Seoul in 1982, and their son, Ashley, was born in 1989. After their marriage ended, [b] Crowther had a brief second marriage to a woman he met in Kenya, but this also ended in divorce.
The book won the Shincho Gakugei literature award in 1994. Kerr was the first non-Japanese winner. [3] [4] [5]Damian Flanagan of The Japan Times wrote, "A fascinating chronicle of Kerr’s diverse interactions with the country, the book spans such subjects as restoring a traditional Japanese house in the Iya Valley in Shikoku to collecting Japanese antiques often found languishing unloved in ...
Ian Douglas Wright (born 17 May 1965, Suffolk, England) [citation needed] is an English television host, artist and comedian.Wright was host of Pilot Productions' travel/adventure television series Globe Trekker (also called Pilot Guides in Canada and the United States and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet).