WANDERLUST is a landmark contemporary history feature

documentary chronicling the genesis, meteoric rise and global

impact of Australian guidebook publisher Lonely Planet over

three seismic decades – from the early 1970s to the turn of the

millennium. In an age before smartphones, apps and curated

feeds, Lonely Planet was a countercultural bible, an inspirational

global brand, a passport to adventure and a trusted source

of information. Its guidebooks defined travel for an entire

generation.

With unparalleled access to Lonely Planet founder Tony

Wheeler and a legion of Lonely Planet authors and travellers,

WANDERLUST tells how a maverick guidebook publisher, run on

the smell of an oily rag, changed Australia and sparked a global

travel revolution by persuading us all that travel was not just a

hedonistic lark but a force for good that could bind the world

closer together. Was Lonely Planet a passport to the greatest

experiences of our lives? A hippy-dippy utopian boomer cult?

Or a very tart fable about the creative and destructive forces

unleashed by globalisation?