Here’s a book you can only get in Australia or online. Once While
Travelling, The Lonely Planet Story, is of course, sold exclusively online at
lonelyplanet.com.
The Wheelers take a turn telling their own traveling tales, while sharing the history of their company and
perspective on the travel publishing industry that they have dominated for years. There is an abridged
history on the LP site, as well as short bios on
Tony and
Maureen, but I’m sure the book will pull it
all together quite nicely.
This does not mean the Wheelers are showing any signs of slowing down, oh no! Here’s a
journal from a trip Tony took
earlier this year from Singapore to Shanghai, an extended journey to a conference in Macau that he made without taking
a single flight. Nope, no signs of slowing down at all…