Lonely Planet - The World: A Traveller's Guide to the Planet (Travel Guide) About the Author Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks and more, enabling you to explore every day. Lonely Planet enables the curious to experience the world fully and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves, near or far from home.