# Tim Moore (writer) > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tim_Moore_(writer) > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tim_Moore_(writer).md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Moore_(writer) > Source revision: 1328608809 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British travel writer and humorist}} {{Other uses|Tim Moore (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Tim Moore in 2015 '''Tim Moore''' (born 18 May 1964Moore, T., ''French Revolutions'', as above in [Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire](/source/Chipping_Norton%2C_Oxfordshire){{Cite web|title=Tim Moore - AP Watt, Literary Agents|url= http://www.apwatt.co.uk/media/frame.asp?left=factual_left.asp?writer_id=5&right=factual_full.asp?writer_id=5|website=www.apwatt.co.uk|access-date=2007-09-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061005001324/http://www.apwatt.co.uk/media/frame.asp?left=factual_left.asp?writer_id=5&right=factual_full.asp?writer_id=5|archive-date=2006-10-05}}) is a British [travel writer](/source/travel_writing) and humourist. He was educated at [Latymer Upper School](/source/Latymer_Upper_School) in Hammersmith. In addition to his nine published travelogues to date, his writings have appeared in various publications including ''[Esquire](/source/Esquire_(magazine))'', ''[The Sunday Times](/source/The_Sunday_Times_(UK))'', ''[The Independent](/source/The_Independent)'', ''[The Observer](/source/The_Observer)'' and the ''[Evening Standard](/source/Evening_Standard)''. He was also briefly a journalist for the [Teletext](/source/Teletext) computer games magazine ''[Digitiser](/source/Digitiser)'', under the pseudonym '''Mr Hairs''', alongside [Mr Biffo](/source/Paul_Rose_(journalist)) (aka comedy and sitcom writer Paul Rose.) His book ''Frost On My Moustache'' is an account of a journey in which the author attempts to emulate [Lord Dufferin's](/source/Lord_Dufferin) fearless spirit and enthusiastic adventuring, but comes to identify far more with Dufferin's permanently miserable butler, Wilson, as portrayed in Dufferin's travel book ''[Letters From High Latitudes](/source/Letters_From_High_Latitudes)''. The book title refers to a joke Moore retells to his Scandinavian shipmates:
An Eskimo calls out a repair man to check his car. The mechanic checks under the bonnet and then offers a diagnosis: "Looks like you've blown a seal, mate." "No," says the driver, nervously fingering his upper lip, "it's just frost on my moustache."{{Cite web|title=Frost on my Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer|url=http://www.bookiverse.com/books/frost-on-my-moustache-the-arctic-exploits-of-a-lord-and-a-loafer|website=www.bookiverse.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320054531/http://www.bookiverse.com/books/frost-on-my-moustache-the-arctic-exploits-of-a-lord-and-a-loafer/|archive-date=2017-03-20}}
In 2004, Moore presented an [ITV](/source/ITV1) programme based on his book ''Do Not Pass Go'', a travelogue of his journey around the locations that appear on a British [Monopoly](/source/Monopoly_(game)) board. In 2014, Moore released his ninth book, ''Gironimo! Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy'', which recounts his 2012 rerunning of the difficult [1914 Giro d'Italia](/source/1914_Giro_d'Italia). For this he used a period bicycle and wore a reproduction period costume. The book was Book of the Week on [BBC Radio 4](/source/BBC_Radio_4) in May 2014.{{Cite web|title=Book Of The Week: Gironimo! Riding The Very Terrible 1914 Tour Of Italy|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2014/19/book-of-the-week|website=www.bbc.co.uk|access-date=2023-10-16|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925074853/https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2014/19/book-of-the-week|archive-date=2015-09-25}} ==Personal life== Moore lives in [Chiswick](/source/Chiswick), [West London](/source/London) with his [Iceland](/source/Iceland)ic partner Birna Helgadóttir and their three children. He is also a brother-in-law of [Agnar Helgason](/source/Agnar_Helgason) and [Asgeir Helgason](/source/Asgeir_Helgason), and son-in-law of [Helgi Valdimarsson](/source/Helgi_Valdimarsson). == Bibliography == * ''Frost on my Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer'' (1999) ({{ISBN|0-224-07780-5}}) * ''Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist'' ({{ISBN|0-09-947194-9}}) (2000) (published in the [U.S.](/source/United_States) as ''The Grand Tour: The European Adventure of a Continental Drifter'') ({{ISBN|0-312-30047-6}}) * ''French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France'' (2001) ({{ISBN|0-09-943382-6}}) * ''Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair'' (2002) ({{ISBN|0-09-943386-9}}) * ''Spanish Steps: Travels With My Donkey'' (2004) ({{ISBN|0-09-947194-9}}) (published in the USA as ''Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago'') ({{ISBN|0-312-32083-3}}) * ''Nul Points'' (2006) ({{ISBN|0-224-07780-5}}) * ''I Believe in Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History '' (2008) ({{ISBN|0-224-07781-3}}) * ''You are Awful (But I Like You): Travels in Unloved Britain'' (2012) ({{ISBN|0-224-09011-9}}) * ''Gironimo! Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy'' (2014) ({{ISBN|978-0224092074}}) * ''The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain'' (2016) ({{ISBN|978-0224100205}}) * ''Another Fine Mess: Across the USA in a Ford Model T'' (2018) ({{ISBN|978-1787290297}}) * ''Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain'' (2021) ({{ISBN|978-1787333055}}) == References == {{Reflist}} {{Wikiquote}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Tim}} Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:English male cyclists Category:Cycling writers Category:English travel writers Category:English humorists Category:English non-fiction outdoors writers Category:Male touring cyclists Category:Touring cyclists Category:People from Chipping Norton Category:People from Chiswick --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tim Moore (writer)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Moore_(writer)) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Moore_(writer)?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.