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A ROUGH GUIDE TO ROUGH GUIDES

Published in 1982, the first Rough Guide – to Greece – was a student scheme that
became a publishing phenomenon. Mark Ellingham, a recent graduate in English
from Bristol University, had been travelling in Greece the previous summer and
couldn’t find the right guidebook. With a small group of friends he wrote his own
guide, combining a highly contemporary, journalistic style with a thoroughly

practical approach to travellers’ needs.

The immediate success of the book spawned a series that rapidly covered dozens of
destinations. And, in addition to impecunious backpackers, Rough Guides soon
acquired a much broader readership that relished the guides’ wit and inquisitiveness
as much as their enthusiastic, critical approach and value-for-money ethos.