We keep liking the "Rough Guide First Time Around the World as a best backpackers' travel book each year because it keeps being the best of its kind: a rough (meaning adventurous) guide book to accompany your first trip around the world, with travel advice told in the trademark Rough Guide rock and roll tone. And "first" would indicate that there will be more, and we like that optimistic surety.
Rough Guide's First Time Around the World
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