Which series of guide books was founded by Tony and Maureen Wheeler in 1973?
Maureen Wheeler Maureen Wheeler Maureen Wheeler, , is a Northern Irish-Australian businesswoman, who co-founded Lonely Planet with her husband Tony Wheeler. Wheeler was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and moved to London at the age 20, where she met her future husband, Tony Wheeler on a park bench in London on 7 October 1970. She travelled with Tony on an overland journey from London through Europe and Asia, then on to Australia. That trip resulted in a guidebook "Across Asia on the Cheap" and laid the foundations of the travel publisher Lonely Planet. In a backstreet hotel in Singapore in early 1975
American Guide Series attractions, and a portfolio of photographs. Many books in the project have been updated by private companies or republished without updating. While not states, guides for Alaska and Puerto Rico were published, however Hawaii was not. American Guide Series The American Guide Series was a group of books and pamphlets published in 1937–41 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a Depression-era works program in the United States. The American Guide Series books were compiled by the FWP, but printed by individual states, and contained detailed histories of each of the then 48 states of the Union with