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| | Wider Angle: Lonely Planet Homogenizes |
 | | “Lonely Planet is the bible in places like India,” Mark Ellingham, the founder of Rough Guides, the cheeky British series, says. |
 | | The writers Marianne Wiggins, Jilly Cooper, and Pico Iyer have used Lonely Planet guides to immerse themselves in the feel of a far-off locale for novels set in, respectively, Cameroon, Colombia, and Iran. |
 | | And, in perhaps the greatest tribute, the Vietnamese have begun to manufacture ersatz Lonely Planet guides to complement their line of fake Rolexes. |
| www.benmautner.com /widerangle/2005/05/lonely-planet-homogenizes.html (298 words) |
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