Peter Moore: ‘I Can’t Take Travel That Seriously’

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.14.03 | 11:28 AM ET

Australian writer Peter Moore has been called the “Jim Carrey of travel writing” and the “backpacker’s Bill Bryson,” and he’s the subject of a recent profile in the Sydney Morning Herald. It’s an entertaining little piece. The former advertising copywriter talks about his brushes with danger, his latest book “Swahili For The Broken-hearted” and his next book, which is about a journey through Italy. He says it won’t be anything like the many recent books that romanticize that much-traveled-to country. “I couldn’t write about people sitting around a table getting orgasmic about a tomato,” Moore tells Steve Meacham. “I can’t take travel that seriously. For me, it’s an indulgence.”