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Sat 11 Nov 2009The whole world in his books
THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: TONY WHEELER:THERE IS a globe in the library of the Galway hotel where I’m interviewing Tony Wheeler, a particularly apt object, given it is the world that has made him his fortune. Tony Wheeler is better known as Mr Lonely Planet, the title of the guide books series that sold their 100th millionth copy last month.
Wheeler is in Galway to speak at a Fáilte Ireland forum, and he has spent the past few days on the Aran Islands. He’s brought some of the islands with him, in the form of mud on his jeans. “I got soaking wet out there,” he laughs, regarding the dried mud with surprise, as if seeing it for the first time.
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