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Lonely Planet Across Asia on the Cheap

Tony Wheeler

Lonely Planet Across Asia on the Cheap is a reprint of the very first Lonely Planet guide, originally published in 1973. It gives anyone interested in travel a unique insight into how Lonely Planet began and an idea of what it was like to travel overland from Europe to Asia, 40 years ago.

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It was self-published by the authors and became the first book in the Lonely Planet series, which was discussed as a popular travel guide for gap year travellers.

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And they ended up putting everything together into a book called Asia on the Cheap.

— Episode: What's a gap year anyway?

Episode: What's a gap year anyway?

It was self-published by the authors and became the first book in the Lonely Planet series, which was discussed as a popular travel guide for gap year travellers.

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And they ended up putting everything together into a book called Asia on the Cheap.

Across Asia on the Cheap, sorry.

They published it themselves. Tony took it to bookstores and said, hey, I've got this book. You guys want this? And people started buying it. And it became the first title in the Lonely Planet series.

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