Geoff Crowther
Geoff Crowther | |
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| Born | 15 March 1944 West Yorkshire, England[a] |
| Died | 13 April 2021 (aged 77) South East Queensland, Australia |
| Alma mater | University of Liverpool |
| Occupation | Travel writer |
| Organization(s) | BIT, Lonely Planet |
| Spouse |
Hyung Poon
(m. 1982, divorced) |
| Children | 1 |
Geoff Crowther (15 March 1944 – 13 April 2021) was a British travel writer who wrote for BIT and Lonely Planet.
Life
[edit | edit source]Early life
[edit | edit source]Crowther was born in West Yorkshire[a] on 15 March 1944. His parents worked in a cotton mill.[1][3]
He attended Calder High School, and began hitchhiking around Europe while still a teenager. At the University of Liverpool, he studied biochemistry, and considered staying on to undertake a doctorate, but in the end his desire to travel proved too great.[1][2][3]
BIT and Lonely Planet
[edit | edit source]In 1972, he joined the alternative information service BIT, where he oversaw the production of Overland to India and Australia. The guide impressed Tony and Maureen Wheeler, and in 1976 they invited him to join Lonely Planet.[2][4][5]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]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.[1][2]
Final years
[edit | edit source]In 2005, he sustained a head injury in an accident and moved to a residential care facility.[2] He died in South East Queensland on 13 April 2021, at the age of seventy-seven, as a result of complications arising from dementia.[3][1]
Notable guidebooks
[edit | edit source]- Africa on the Cheap (1977) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- South America on a Shoestring (1980) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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- Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei: A Travel Survival Kit (1982) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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- Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia: A Travel Survival Kit (1989) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Kenya: A Travel Survival Kit (1991) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Notes
[edit | edit source]References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Interview with Ashley Crowther in 2021, in which he talks about his father.
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