Christopher Paul Baker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Christopher Paul Baker
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jun 15, 1955(1955-06-15)
Age	69
Birthplace	Pontefract
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Christopher Paul Baker Biography

Christopher Paul Baker is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on June 15, 1955 in Pontefract, England, United Kingdom. He is currently working in partnership with singer-actor David Soul in producing a documentary film on his 1955 Chrysler New Yorker convertible, in Havana.

He was a founder member of the Bay Area Travel Writers. In 1982.

In 1989, Baker was admitted to the Society of American Travel Writers. That year he was also commissioned to write his first guidebook, resulting in publication of the Costa Rica Handbook (now Moon Costa Rica). His guidebook won the Independent Book Publishers Association 1996 Benjamin Franklin Award. Baker’s first Lonely Planet guidebook, on Jamaica, was followed by Lonely Planet’s guidebook to The Bahamas & Turks & Caicos). and by the Cuba Handbook (now Moon Cuba

During the 1990s and early millennium years he taught travel writing and photography classes for The Learning Annex, in San Francisco, and in 2006 was inducted as a permanent faculty member in the prestigious annual SATW Institute for Travel Writing & Photography.

In the year 1980, Baker relocated to California in 1980, where he was awarded an Scripps Howard Foundation Scholarship to go to the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Instead, he got married to a travel agent, Kristen Birner, and started working for Adventure Center, a wholesaler and retailer of adventure travel across the world. His main duties were marketing and brochure production. In 1981, he led an agency acquaintance trip New Zealand, resulting in publication of his first travel article within New Zealand in the USA in TravelAge West.

Christopher Paul Baker Net Worth

Christopher Paul Baker is one of the richest Writer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christopher Paul Baker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Christopher P. Baker (born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England 15th June in 1955) is an experienced travel writer, photographer adventure motorcyclist, tour guide, and Cuba expert. He also won the winner of the 2008 Lowell Thomas Award ‘Travel Journalist of the Year.’ He has contributed to magazines and other publications across the globe and is the writer of travel guides for publishers like Dorling Kindersley, Lonely Planet, Moon Publications, and National Geographic.

Baker attended Rastrick Grammar School, in Brighouse, Calderdale, Yorkshire. In 1976, he earned an BA (Honours) from the department of Geography at University College London, during which he was a participant in a program of exchange between universities in Krakow, Poland; and as part of two Sahara research expeditions. In the following year, he attended graduation at the Centre for Latin American Studies in the University of Liverpool, where the recipient received an honorary Masters after completing his thesis on the agrarian reforms and guerrilla rebellions within Colombia. In 1977 He was back at the University of London, received an award for teaching at the Institute of Education in 1978 after which he spent a short time teaching in schools in London in between travel throughout Europe as well as North America.

He launched his career as a travel writer and photographer in 1982 and initially specialized in international adventure travel. His articles included first-person reports on such activities as bicycling in Bali, hiking to Mount Everest, whitewater rafting in Papua New Guinea, and natural history cruising in the Galapagos Islands. In 1984 he became a contributing editor for International Travel News, specializing in Southeast Asia. That year he also planned his first group tour to Britain and for the next six years operated tours to Britain under British Pride Tours. In 1989 and 1990 he operated shopping tours to Hong Kong and Korea with former fashion model Kim Mason. He continued to organize and manage trips to Britain until 1990, following which he dedicated himself exclusively to his travel writing and photography career.

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In April 2011, Baker was the first foreign journalist to photograph and report the existence of Ernest Hemingway’s long-lost and recently rediscovered 1955 Chrysler New Yorker convertible, in Havana. In 2012 Baker partnered with actor-singer David Soul to produce a cinematic documentary about the restoration of Hemingway’s Chrysler. The documentary, in which Baker plays a fixer, translator and sidekick to David Soul, is being produced by London- based Red Earth Studio.

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Christopher Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Christopher Paul Baker celebrates birthday on June 15 of every year.