Roughguides

Rough Guides is a leading publisher of travel and reference information, respected for their accurate, up-to-date content and informed contemporary writing. In the summer of 1981, Mark Ellingham, just graduated from Bristol University, was travelling around Greece and couldn't find a guidebook that remotely met his requirements. It was here that he met Martin Dunford, who was in Greece teaching English at the time. On their return to the UK, in a bid to avoid getting real jobs, Mark, Martin and a tiny group of writers set about creating their own guidebook series; a series that aimed to combine a journalistic approach to description with a practical approach to travellers requirements.