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...
Having chaired the panel of judges for this year’s Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award – Wild Coast the well-deserved winner – I thought I should read the last couple of winners. The Dead Yard, Ian Thomson’s book about Jamaica, picked up the award two years ago. I...
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