Monday, 29 September 2008
My Profile
Overlooking Bogota, Colombia in April 2008
When Maureen and I arrived in Sydney the day after Christmas 1972, after a six month Asia overland trip from Europe, we had 27 cents left between us. In late 1973 we started Lonely Planet Publications to publish Across Asia on the Cheap, the story of our trip from London to Australia. We spent the following year travelling around South-East Asia and in early 1975 published our second book, South-East Asia on a Shoestring.
From those early guidebooks Lonely Planet Publications has grown to become the world’s largest independent guidebook publisher with more than 500 titles in print, over 400 staff and offices in London and Oakland as well as the head office in Melbourne. Last year we sold a majority interest in Lonely Planet to BBC-Worldwide, but we’re still closely involved with the company and regularly travel to check out our books and other travel products, investigate new travel possibilities or simply to experience something new. In early 2009 I hit the road with a film crew from Lonely Planet TV to film the Laos program for our forthcoming series The Roads Less Travelled.
Once while Travelling: The Lonely Planet Story
