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.
A month ago I posted a review of Mark Binelli’s page-turning history of Detroit and some thoughts on my own connections with the city. It’s been an interesting month, to say the least, for Detroit, now the USA’s biggest city bankruptcy case. At the same time there hav...
I’ve just read Mark Binelli’s superb book about the decline and fall – and perhaps rebirth – of Detroit. Mark has written for Rolling Stone and indeed this reads like a Rolling Stone page turner, a tale of alternate shock and awe. There’s a great line about using Detr...
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