Christine Bowker Osborne was born in Sydney, NSW Australia. She trained as a nurse, graduating in 1963. She began writing about her overseas travels in the mid-sixties and in 1969, received the Pacific Area Travel Association Award for articles on south-east Asia. The following year, she received the PATA Grand Award for a feature on Burma. Settling in London in 1974, she produced her first book, The Gulf States and Oman, published in 1977. A string of other books and travel guides followed on developing countries in the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa. Her most recent self published travel memoir details her experiences working as a freelance writer and photographer in these countries. which include 35 Muslim states. Travels with My Hat: A lifetime on the Road, received the non-fiction award for self publishing from the Self Publishing Review in April 2014.
