**Lonely Planet Across Asia on the Cheap** is a reprint of the very first Lonely Planet guide, originally published in 1973. It gives anyone interested in travel a unique insight into how Lonely Planet began and an idea of what it was like to travel overland from Europe to Asia, 40 years ago. **Inside Lonely Planet Across Asia on the Cheap** * **Introduction** to the Lonely Planet story * **Latest eBooks** Discover how far Lonely Planet’s books have changed over the last 40 years * **Country by country** get an understanding of what it was like to travel overland in the 70s… ideal for the armchair traveller * * * **eBook Features** * **Seamlessly flip** between pages * **Quickly find** what you are looking for with search capabilities * **Use bookmarks** to quickly return to a page * **Add notes** by touching a word to personalize your guidebook * **Inbuilt dictionary** allows you to quickly look up the meaning of any word * * * **Authors** Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Tony and Maureen Wheeler. * * * **About Lonely Planet** Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel content provider. Started in 1973, we enable curious travelers to experience the world and get to the heart of a place via guidebooks to every destination on the planet, an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveler community. ** *Lonely Planet… It’s on everyone’s bookshelves; it’s in every traveller’s hands. It’s on mobile phones. It’s on the internet. It’s everywhere, and it’s telling entire generations of people how to travel the world. – Fairfax Media (Australia)*