By the time Tony co-founded Lonely Planet Publications in 1973, he already had the travel bug. And ever since, travel and discovery have been at the heart of his life and career.
My recent Bali retreat mainly circled around travel writers and their Bali-related books, including Bill Dalton’s classic Indonesia Handbook and my own South-East Asia on a Shoestring, but other authors also featured. ◄ The Painted Alphabet – A mythical story of Ba...
The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards – that’s the state of Victoria in Australia, capital city Melbourne – is ‘the single most valuable literary award in the country’. The winner takes away A$100,000 as the big prize, plus another A$25,000 because they first have t...
There’s hardly a better known travel name in the USA than Rick Steves, whether it’s for his travel guidebooks, the European tours he leads or his regular television appearance. So it’s a pleasant surprise to encounter another younger Rick Steves and I contributed a co...
▲ I met Bernd Tesch in Germany – Frankfurt Bookfair of course – back in 1977 (so 48 years ago) when he was promoting his first travel books. There have been many more since including, most recently, Australian Adventure Travel – Australien Abenteuer Reisen – 448 page...
Lonely Planet author Leif Pettersen’s writing interests clearly extend much further than his Romania gig with LP. Eight years ago I wrote a blog on his Backpacking with Dracula book, noting that it probably supplied way more information on Transylvania and Vlad Tepes ...
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