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Rough Guide to Women of the World
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(World Music Network)
THE ROUGH Guide series has cornered the market for well-thumbed travel books for gap-year students and compilation albums for those interested in exploring world music from the comfort of their living room.
Previous well-compiled volumes have been dedicated to Cambodian psychedelia and Tex Mex but the remit of Women of the World is arguably too wide to be meaningful.
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