- Source: Thomas Cook Travel Book Award
The Thomas Cook Travel Book Award originated as an initiative of Thomas Cook AG in 1980, with the aim of encouraging and rewarding the art of literary travel writing. The awards stopped in 2005 (2004 being the last year an award was given). One year later, the only other travel book award in Britain, the Dolman Best Travel Book Award, began in 2006.
Winners
Source:
2004, Richard Grant, Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
2003, Jenny Diski, Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions
2002, Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China
2001, Stanley Stewart, In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History
2000, Jason Elliot, An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
1999, Philip Marsden, The Spirit-Wrestlers: A Russian Journey
1998, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Yemen:Travels in Dictionary Land
1997, Nicholas Crane, Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe
1996, Stanley Stewart, Frontiers of Heaven: A Journey to the End of China
1995, Gavin Bell, In Search of Tusitala: Travels in the Pacific After Robert Louis Stevenson
1994, William Dalrymple, City of Djinns
1993, Nick Cohn, The Heart of the World
1992, Norman Lewis, A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India
1991, co-winners:
Jonathan Raban, Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America
Gavin Young, In Search of Conrad
1990, Mark Hudson, Our Grandmothers’ Drums
1989, Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster
1988, Colin Thubron, Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China
1986/87, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Between the Woods & the Water
1985, Patrick Marnham, So Far From God: Journey to Central America
1984, Geoffrey Moorhouse, To The Frontier
1983, Vikram Seth, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
1982, Tim Severin, The Sinbad Voyage
1981, Jonathan Raban, Old Glory: An American Voyage
1980, Robyn Davidson, Tracks
References
External links
Thomas Cook Travel Book Award at the Wayback Machine (archived August 29, 2005)