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Tony Wheeler AO (born 20 December 1946) [1] is an English-born Australian publishing entrepreneur, businessman and travel writer, co-founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook company with his wife, Maureen Wheeler.
Lonely Planet was founded by married couple Maureen and Tony Wheeler. In 1972, they embarked on an overland trip through Europe and Asia to Australia, following the route of the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition. [6] [7] The company name originates from the misheard "lovely planet" in a song written by Matthew Moore. [8]
Tony Wheeler (born January 19, 1975) is an American former sprinter. [1] Wheeler ran the 200m, 400m and 4x100m for the Clemson Tigers. College career.
Maureen Wheeler was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and moved to London at the age 20, where she met her future husband, Tony.They travelled from London through Europe and Asia, then on to Australia.
In 1973, Tony Wheeler and his wife Maureen Wheeler, the creators of the Lonely Planet guidebooks, produced a publication about the hippie trail called Across Asia On The Cheap. They wrote this 94-page pamphlet based upon travel experiences gained by crossing Western Europe, the Balkans, Turkey and Iran from London in a minivan.
The very first N&A couple, former Special Forces veteran Tony Wheeler and former Marine Star Torres, faces challenges to themselves and their relationship as they take on the relentless Guyana jungle, where they must work together to battle jaguars, venomous snakes, caiman and more than two million species of biting insects, culminating in a ...
After a successful first defense, Tony Jr.'s own student, Danny "Stuntman" Wheeler (played by actual light-heavyweight boxer Andre Ward) lays Creed out on the canvas and wins his car. Tony Jr. and Wheeler are both later seen training for a supposed match with "Pretty" Ricky Conlan in the intro of the film's version of HBO Boxing's 24/7 and the ...
In May 2007, Mark Ellingham said he had grave concerns about the growth of air travel because of its growing contribution to climate change. He launched an awareness campaign with Tony Wheeler (Lonely Planet founder), and Rough Guides began including a "health warning" in each of its travel guides, urging readers to "Fly less, stay longer". [4]