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.
For some reason I’d never been there, pretty much everywhere else in the Caribbean, Haiti twice, Cuba three times, I’d even spent part of my childhood in the Bahamas, but somehow Jamaica evaded me. Not any more, I did almost a circuit, arriving in Kingston and depa...
Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan is the subtitle of Kim Barker’s gonzo-journalistic account of seven years in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Having grown up in Montana and never really travelled she was clearly ideal material for the trouble-zone posting. First she...
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