Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Sketchandtravel.Com and travelsmag Bookpleasures.Com is extremely joyful to have as a visitor properly- regarded author and journey creator, Christopher P. Baker.
Christopher is an professional on Cuba and Jamaica, as well as other venues inside the Caribbean and Latin America.
Christopher become named Travel Journalist Of The Year by means of the Jamaica Tourist Board in 1998. He is here to speak about with us Jamaica.
Good Day Christopher and thank you for accepting our invitation to be interviewed.
NORM:
Please tell our readers something approximately yourself, your knowledge and the
books you have got authored.
Christopher:
I grew up and become knowledgeable in England, where I started out my global travels even as reading geography at university. After settling in California in 1980, I worked in brief inside the adventure travel enterprise. I’ve been a complete-time expert journey writer and photographer considering the fact that 1982.
Although in my early career I specialized in adventure travel, and also the Asia/Pacific area, for the duration of the past 15 years I even have specialized within the Caribbean, with a particular cognizance on and fondness for Cuba. My love affair with Cuba began with publication of my Moon Handbooks Cuba and Moon Handbooks Havana.
I’ve on the grounds that written National Geographic Traveler Cuba and Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro’s Cuba, a literary travelog that gained each the Lowell Thomas Award as Travel Book of the Year and the North American Travel Journalists Association’s Grand Prize. My maximum latest e book is Cuba Classics: A Celebration of Vintage American Automobiles (Interlink Books, 2004), a lavishly illustrated espresso-table ebook.
I’ve authored severa different books, which includes Lonely Planet’s guidebooks to Jamaica and The Bahamas and Turk & Caicos Islands, plus the Passport Illustrated Guide to Jamaica. I’ve also written about Jamaica (and different Caribbean islands and global locations) for dozens of main magazines and newspaper journey sections, consisting of as a normal contributor to SkyWritings (Air Jamaica’s inflight magazine) and Caribbean Travel & Life.