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Katherine F. Douglas `02, a Let's Go publicity director, dismisses Lonely Planet sales figures as the result of their expanding titles, including phrasebooks and cookbooks, rather than increasing popularity.
"If their travel guides were actually selling 15-20 percent more than that would give us a run for our money," Douglas says. "The [Let's Go] Europe guide is the number one best selling travel guide in the market. We don't really feel the need to catch up...
Douglas also mentions several new ventures for Let's Go this year as proof of the series' healthy growth.
To shoulder the increasing workload, the Let's Go home office on Mt. Auburn street is also expanding this year, Douglas says, with more managing editors and associate editors to churn out the more than 50 titles to be released for the 2002 series.
“Island Girl” is a beautiful piece of poetic escapism, its stripped-down arrangements and liquid vocals capturing all the innocence of childhood fairy tales. Lyrics are disarmingly simple, though never simplistic, as in the singer’s gentle exhortations to “Don?...