Lonely Planet blog. Blog home · rss icon. Straight from the keyboards of the Lonely Planet team. 22 December 2009; 9:07pm; Filed under. Other · A decade in travel: Frances Linzee Gordon's review. Tom HallLonely Planet author. We continue our review of the past ten years of travel by talking to writer and photographer Frances Linzee Gordon. Frances is one of Lonely Planet's best-known authors, writing on the Middle East and Africa as well as talking about travel on ...