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OUR STORY
A beat-up old car, a few
dollars in the pocket and a
OUR sense of adventure. In 1972
that’s all Tony and Maureen
WRITERS Wheeler needed for the
trip of a lifetime – across
Europe and Asia overland
to Australia. It took several
months, and at the end –
broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and
stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap.
Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies. Lonely Planet was born.
Today, Lonely Planet has offices in Franklin, London, Melbourne,
Oakland, Dublin, Beijing and Delhi, with more than 600 staff and
writers. We share Tony’s belief that ‘a great guidebook should do
three things: inform, educate and amuse’.

JEAN-BERNARD CARILLET ALEXIS AVERBUCK
A Paris-based (and Metz-born) journalist and Alexis Averbuck first came to France when she was
photographer, Jean-Bernard has clocked up four and now visits every chance she gets. Whether
countless trips to all French regions and is a browsing markets in the Dordogne, sampling oysters
passionate ambassador for his own country. As a in Brittany, or careening through hilltop villages in
hopeless French gourmand and amateur de bon vins Provence (she also contributes to the Provence &
(wine lover), he was all too happy to research Lyon Côte d’Azur book), she immerses herself in all things
(pike dumplings, anyone?), La Dombes (that yummy French. A travel writer for two decades, Alexis has
frog pie), Beaujolais (oh, that St-Amour lingers long lived in Antarctica for a year, crossed the Pacific by
on the palate) and the Rhône Valley down to the sailboat, and is also a painter – see her work at www.
Gorges de l’Ardèche. alexisaverbuck.com.

Read more about Jean-Bernard at https://auth.
lonelyplanet.com/profiles/jbcarillet

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