Within a week of its publication Tony and Maureen Wheeler had sold 1500 copies Lonely Planet was born.

As of 2004 650 titles have been published in 118 countries.

Covering everything you need to know about your travel destination including accommodation prices what places to see and how to get there a Lonely Planet travel guide is your must have travel companion.

Lonely Planet New Zealand Guidebook The sun shows up here first for a reason.

Come for bracing light or caverns underground glacial valleys or black volcanic sand.

Tour every landscape on earth all rolled into one country.

Dig for pipis on the beach or sample oysters on a platter.

Savour solitude with a view or city culture.

Things are never just black and white in New Zealand.

New Zealand Guidebook Features STICK OUT YOUR TONGUE taste the freshest seafood worldclass wines or the best lamb roast there is SLAP YOUR THIGHS a good times easy to find from happening Auckland to waterfront Wellington GET AROUND the country with the help of over 128 detailed maps STAND UP PROUD and experience Maori culture firsthand take part in a powhiri or fill your puku at a hangi RUN AT IT SHOUTING bungy jump sea kayak surf trek and hit the white water with the best of them Product Details Country New Zealand Edition 13th edition/2006 Paperback Book Genre Travel ISBN 9781741045352