Decades after co-founding a publishing company that sparked 150 million guidebooks covering 221 countries, Tony Wheeler is still a backpacker at heart.Wheeler and his wife, Maureen, created Lonely Planet 50 years ago, after the newlyweds embarked on a road trip from to Turkey, and , ending when they sold their car and headed to Australia.The name derives from a misheard lyric in Joe Cocker's track, Space Captain: 'Once I was traveling across the sky; this lovely planet caught my eye.'
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