Peter Moore (Author)
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Peter Moore (born July 18, 1962 in Sydney ) is an Australian travel writer.
Life
Moore grew up in Sydney, where he first attended the Hurlstone Agricultural High School and later the University of Sydney , where he studied Medieval Studies . After obtaining his bachelor's degree , he finished his studies. In the following years Moore traveled a lot and worked as a copywriter and as an English teacher in Tokyo. In 1993 he quit his job and devoted himself exclusively to traveling. In 1997, Transworld ( Random House Publishing Group ) published his first book, No Shitting in the Toilet , and has since published five more books. From 2020, the unpublished book Going Around in Circles about a 1993 trip along the equator was published in the form of a weblog . Moore currently lives in London.
style
Apart from his first work No Shitting in the Toilet , which is a collection of anecdotes in the style of a travel guide, each of Moore's books deals with a trip. So describes Swahili for the Broken Hearted the way from Cape Town to Cairo by public transport, while in Vroom with a View the Milan-Rome route to a 1961 Vespa is covered. All books are held in first person perspective and characterized by a lot of situation comedy .
Awards
- 2004: Nominated for the WHSmith People's Choice Book Award with Swahili for the Broken-Hearted .
Works
- No shitting in the toilet . Bantam Books , 1997, ISBN 978-0-553-81736-2 .
- The Wrong Way Home . Bantam Books, 1999, ISBN 978-0-553-81700-3 .
- The Full Montezuma . Bantam Books, 2001, ISBN 978-0-553-81701-0 .
- Swahili for the Broken-Hearted . Bantam Books, 2003, ISBN 978-0-553-81452-1 .
- Vroom with a view . Bantam Books, 2005, ISBN 978-0-553-81637-2 .
- Vroom by the Sea . Bantam Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-8402-4737-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ PeterMoore.net: Biography ( Memento from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ PeterMoore.net: Going Around In Circles. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ SMH.com.au: No fear, thanks to Skip. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ PeterMoore.net: Better Late Than Never ... Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Announcement on Jiscmail.ac.uk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moore, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney |