Lowell Thomas

**Lowell Jackson Thomas** () adalah seorang penulis, penyiar dan penjelajah Amerika, yang dikenal sebagai orang yang membuat Lawrence dari Arabia menjadi terkenal.
## Kehidupan awal dan karier
Thomas lahir di Woodington, Darke County, Ohio, dari pasangan Harry dan Harriet Thomas. Ayahnya adalah seorang dokter dan ibunya adalah seorang guru. Pada 1900, keluarganya pindah ke kota pertambangan Victor, Colorado. Thomas bekerja disana sebagai penambang emas, tukang masak, dan wartawan surat kabar.

## Peninggalan
Untuk menghormatinya, sejak 1980, the Explorers Club di mana Lowell Thomas merupakan anggotanya dahulu, secara tahunan mengadakan Lowell Thomas Awards. Salah satu yang mendapatkan penghargaan ini adalah Rosaly Lopes.

## Buku
Beberapa buku Thomas adalah:

* *With Lawrence in Arabia*, 1924
* *The First World Flight*, 1925
* *Beyond [[Khyber Pass]]*, 1925
* *[[Felix von Luckner|Count Luckner]]*, The Sea Devil, 1927
* *European Skyways*, 1927
* *The Boy's Life of Colonel Lawrence*, 1927
* *Adventures in [[Afghanistan]] for Boys*, 1928
* *Raiders of the Deep*, 1928
* *The Sea Devil's Fo'c'sle*, 1929
* *Woodfill of the Regulars*, 1929
* *The Hero of Vincennes: the Story of [[George Rogers Clark]]*, 1929
* *The Wreck of the [[Dumaru]]*, 1930
* *[[SMS Emden (1908)#Epilogue|Lauterbach of the China Sea]]*, 1930
* *[[India]]--Land of the Black Pagoda*, 1930
* *Rolling Stone: The Life and Adventures of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore.*, 1931 See Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore
* *Tall Stories*, 1931
* *Kabluk of the [[Eskimo]]*, 1932
* *This Side of Hell*, 1932
* *Old Gimlet Eye: The Adventures of General [[Smedley Butler]]*, 1933
* *[[Tex O'Reilly|Born to Raise Hell]]*, 1933
* *The Untold Story of Exploration*, 1935
* *Fan Mail*, 1935
* *A Trip to [[New York City|New York]] With Bobby and Betty*, 1936
* *Men of Danger*, 1936
* *[[Rudyard Kipling|Kipling]] Stories and a Life of Kipling*, 1936
* *Seeing [[Canada]] With Lowell Thomas*, 1936
* *Seeing [[India]] With Lowell Thomas*, 1936
* *Seeing [[Japan]] With Lowell Thomas*, 1937
* *Seeing [[Mexico]] With Lowell Thomas*, 1937
* *Adventures Among the Immortals*, 1937
* *Hungry Waters*, 1937
* *Wings Over [[Asia]]*, 1937
* *Magic Dials*, 1939
* *In [[New Brunswick]] We'll Find It*, 1939
* *Soft Ball! So What?*, 1940
* *How To Keep Mentally Fit*, 1940
* *Stand Fast for Freedom*, 1940
* *Pageant of Adventure*, 1940
* *Pageant of Life*, 1941
* *Pageant of Romance*, 1943
* *These Men Shall Never Die*, 1943
* *Out of this World: Across the Himalayas to Tibet* (1951)
* *Back to [[Mandalay]]*, 1951
* *Great True Adventures*, 1955
* *The Story of the [[New York Thruway]]*, 1955
* *[[Seven Wonders of the World]]*, 1956
* *History As You Heard It* 1957
* *The Story of the [[St. Lawrence Seaway]]*, 1957
* *The Vital Spark*, 1959
* *Sir [[Hubert Wilkins]], A Biography*, 1961
* *More Great True Adventures*, 1963
* *Book of the High [[Mountains]]*, 1964 ()
* *Famous First Flights That Changed History*, 1968 ()
* *[[Burma]] Jack*, 1971 ()
* *[[James Harold Doolittle|Doolittle]]: A Biography*, 1976 ()
* *Good Evening Everybody: From [[Cripple Creek, Colorado|Cripple Creek]] to [[Samarkand]]*, 1976 ()
* *So Long Until Tomorrow*, 1977 ()

## Catatan

## Referensi

* Bowen, Norman (ed) (1968) *The Stranger Everyone Knows* Doubleday
* Hamilton, John Maxwell (2011) *Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting* LSU Press  pg 248

## Pranala luar
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* ''With Lawrence in Arabia'' at Internet Archive.
* Lowell Thomas at Find-A-Grave
* Lowell Thomas interview at American Heritage
* “Creating History: Lowell Thomas and Lawrence of Arabia” online history exhibit at Clio Visualizing History.
* Lawrenceofarabia.co.uk