Exploring Kyūshū as an author, entrusted with updating Lonely Planet’s constantly best-selling guidebook to Japan, fulfilled a childhood dream that began when my Aunty Bonnie gave me that same guidebook for my 12th birthday.

It has always been an honour and privelege to have taken so many journeys for Lonely Planet and our readers.

Now, two decades, a few hundred thousand miles, at least as many words and almost 30,000 photographs later, I’ve either co-written or curated each of the English-language editions of the guidebooks below. Many have been translated into multiple languages and remain constants on bestseller lists.

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