Английская Википедия:Geoff Hill (Northern Ireland journalist)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox writer Geoff Hill (born 21 May 1956[1]) is an author, journalist and long-distance motorcycle rider living in Belfast. He is a critically acclaimed author and award-winning feature and travel writer.[2]

He studied at Queen's University Belfast from 1975 to 1979,[3] where he was editor of The Gown,[4] and graduated with a BA in English Language and Literature.Шаблон:Citation needed

While at Queen's, he earned a Blue by making his first appearance for the Northern Ireland men's volleyball team. He went on to captain the team at the 1981 Commonwealth Championships and to play for Northern Ireland 122 times, still an Irish record.

After starting his career in journalism on the Tyrone Constitution, Hill was the features and travel editor of the Belfast News Letter from January 1991 – March 2009, then motorcycle columnist for the Irish Times, Sunday Times and Daily Mirror. He now writes about motorbikes for Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine and the Devitt Insurance motorbike website. He's the editor of Microlight Flying magazine [1] and the Daily Telegraph's travel expert on Northern Ireland [2].

Works

His first travel book, Way to Go (2005), on two motorcycle journeys - from Delhi to Belfast on a Royal Enfield and Route 66 on a Harley Davidson - was published in April 2005.[5] was nominated for UK travel book of the yearШаблон:Citation needed and has been reprinted six times.Шаблон:Citation needed

The sequel, The Road to Gobblers Knob (2007), on a ride from Chile to Alaska along the 16,500 miles of the Pan-American Highway, was published in Spring 2007 and became an immediate Waterstone’s best seller. His next book, Anyway, Where Was I? Geoff Hill’s alternative A-Z of the world (2008), was published in October 2008 and also went straight into Waterstone’s best sellers list.Шаблон:Citation needed

A 2010 work, Oz : around Australia on a Triumph, describes his 15,000 mile motorcycle circumnavigation of Australia with a partner on Highway 1.

In 2013 he wrote In Clancy's Boots, the story of Carl Stearns Clancy, who traveled around the world by motorcycle.[6][7] Hill recreated Clancy's 1912–1913 circumnavigation of the globe (see Шаблон:Section link), carrying with him Clancy's original boots, which are now in the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa, along with Clancy's diaries, photographs, pith helmet and the world's only unrestored 1912 Henderson, the type of motorcycle Clancy rode.

Hill has either won or been shortlisted for a UK Travel Writer of the Year award nine times. He is also a former Irish Travel Writer of the Year and a former Mexican Government European Travel Writer of the Year, and has been Northern Ireland Features Journalist of the Year three times. In 2007 he was NITB Northern Ireland Journalist of the Year.

He is the author of three novels, Smith, of which The Independent on Sunday said: "Lyrical and lunatic... few first novels achieve as much",[8] and which The Times described as "hilarious", Angel Street and The Butler's Son.

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  5. ↑ "Hill, Geoff: The Road to Gobblers Knob.(Brief article)(Book review)". Kirkus Reviews, via Highbeam.
  6. ↑ "Globe Girdlers Six". Riders Digest.
  7. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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