Places you can visit: Travel gift

Ever since company founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler stapled together their first guidebook after an epic trip across Asia, Lonely Planet has put travellers at the heart of everything we do, informing and inspiring them with trusted content for print and digital from experts who visit every destination.

Our beautifully designed, easy-to-use mobile apps put the breadth and depth of Lonely Planet's travel content in the palm of your hand.

We publish travel guides, ebooks, phrasebooks, a range of gift, food and children's titles, and a magazine.

Our award-winning website gives you the tools to plan your next trip: in-depth information on destinations; inspiring ideas on what to see and do; the Thorn Tree forum to connect with other travellers; and travel guides and other products in our shop.

Lonely Planet believes that responsible travel can be a force for good. As a company, the only thing we want to do more than explore the world is protect it for future generations of travellers.

The story of the world's most iconic travel guides begins with Tony and Maureen Wheeler's overland odyssey from London to Australia, an adventure that prompted them to publish their first guidebook – Across Asia on The Cheap – and found Lonely Planet.

Lonely Planet - Travel guides, guidebooks and phrasebooks.

AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books, fine art and collectables where you can discover and buy the things you love. Trusted independent sellers from around the world offer for sale millions of new, used and rare books, as well as art and collectables through the AbeBooks websites.

Fill your bookshelves with used books, the latest bestsellers, rare books such as first editions and signed copies, new and used textbooks, and forgotten out-of-print titles from years gone by.

Decorate your home with fine art, ranging from vintage posters and prints to etchings and original paintings. Add to your collection with vintage magazines and periodicals, comics, photographs, maps and manuscripts, and paper collectables ranging from autograph letters to movie scripts and other ephemera.

Millions of books and other objects are listed for sale on our marketplace by thousands of sellers located in more than 50 countries. Our epic selection stretches from manuscripts created before the invention of the Gutenberg Press to the latest signed bestsellers. We have customers in almost every country of the world, who are buying books and other printed matter published in multiple languages.

The magic of AbeBooks is filling your shelves with affordable books, discovering that long-lost title, finding an out-of-print or collectable book that's become hard to find, or discovering something magical from the past that you simply did not know existed - perhaps a letter from a famous author, a 19th century postcard or a copy of a long-defunct magazine.

AbeBooks.co.uk - Find used, rare and out-of-print books worldwide.