Podcast
How I Built This with Guy Raz
The book was brought up when Guy Raz noted that Tony Wheeler, after leaving the company, contributed a chapter about his transcontinental road trip from Bangkok to London. The mention highlighted the focus on global road trips and served as a brief update rather than a recommendation. Overall, the podcast treated it as a casual reference.
Episode: Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler (2017)
Tony Wheeler wrote a chapter for this book after he was no longer formally involved with Lonely Planet. It's about worldwide drives and the subject matter of his most recent journey from Bangkok to London in a British MG sports car.
Tony did recently score a gig writing a chapter for a new Lonely Planet book. It's called Epic Drives of the World.
Episode: Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler
Tony Wheeler wrote a chapter for this book, which focuses on road trips around the world. It was mentioned at the end of the podcast.
by the way at its height the company was valued at a quarter of a billion dollars the wheelers are no longer formally involved with the company they sold all their shares but Tony did recently score a gig writing a chapter for a new Lonnie Planet book it's called Epic Drives of the World