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Rough Guides

Rough Guides is a leading publisher of travel and reference information, respected for their accurate, up-to-date content and informed contemporary writing.

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These days, Rough Guides is as much a travel content provider as it is a publisher of guidebooks. The guides themselves – distributed worldwide by the Penguin group – cover more than 200 destinations around the globe and subjects as diverse as climate change and pregnancy.

Rough Guides have also migrated to digital platforms with the launch of Rough Guides Mobile, and downloadable travel podcasts, podscrolls, and e-books.

Publications include:

  • Travel guides to more than 200 worldwide destinations
  • Dictionary phrasebooks to 22 major languages
  • Full colour inspirational guides such as Make the Most of Your Time on Earth
  • Travel Specials including First-Time guides and Travel with Babies and Young Children
  • Maps printed on rip-proof and waterproof paper
  • Music guides running the gamut from Opera to Elvis
  • Reference books on topics as diverse as Climate Change and Shakespeare
  • Pop culture books from iPhones, to classic novels, to cult TV
  • Rough Guides Mobile, e-books, podcasts and podscrolls
  • World Music CDs in association with World Music Network

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