February 22, 2003 - Lonely Planet: The 2002 Peace Corps Writers award for Best Travel Writing has been awarded to Joe Cummings for Lonely Planet Bangkok
Peace Corps Online: Directory: Thailand: Peace Corps Thailand: The Peace Corps in Thailand: February 22, 2003 - Lonely Planet: The 2002 Peace Corps Writers award for Best Travel Writing has been awarded to Joe Cummings for Lonely Planet Bangkok
By Admin1 (admin) on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 6:28 pm: Edit Post

The 2002 Peace Corps Writers award for Best Travel Writing has been awarded to Joe Cummings for Lonely Planet Bangkok



The 2002 Peace Corps Writers award for Best Travel Writing has been awarded to Joe Cummings for Lonely Planet Bangkok

The 2002 Peace Corps Writers award for Best Travel Writing has been awarded to Joe Cummings for Lonely Planet Bangkok

Presented annually, the award recognises outstanding writing in fiction; non-fiction and poetry that captures the essence of the Peace Corps experience.

Lonely Planet Bangkok author Joe Cummings lives in Thailand, has a Masters in Thai and art history, and is one of Lonely Planet's better known authors. Cummings has written over 30 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, including the best-selling Thailand and Thailand's Islands & Beaches. He is winner of several major travel writing awards, including the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award 1995 (for Lonely Planet Thailand) and was a Thomas Cook Guidebook of the Year finalist in 1991 (for Lonely Planet Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia) and 1984 (Lonely Planet Thailand).

The 2002 Peace Corps Writers award was presented at the Opening Ceremony for the National Peace Corps Association Conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday 21 June 2002. Previous winners of the award have included Paul Theroux.

For further information please contact us.


Some postings on Peace Corps Online are provided to the individual members of this group without permission of the copyright owner for the non-profit purposes of criticism, comment, education, scholarship, and research under the "Fair Use" provisions of U.S. Government copyright laws and they may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner. Peace Corps Online does not vouch for the accuracy of the content of the postings, which is the sole responsibility of the copyright holder.

This story has been posted in the following forums: : Headlines; COS - Thailand; Travel; Writing

PCOL3155
73

.

Add a Message


This is a public posting area. Enter your username and password if you have an account. Otherwise, enter your full name as your username and leave the password blank. Your e-mail address is optional.
Username:  
Password:
E-mail: