Travel: Departures: Travel bookshelf

THE best selling Rough Guides in 1992 (1991 figures in brackets):

1. (-) USA 2. (-) Europe 3. (3) France 4. (5) Ireland 5. (1) Spain 6. (4) Paris 7. (12) California and West Coast 8. (7) Portugal 9. (19) Florida 10. (22) Egypt

America was the best seller of 1992, says Mark Ellingham, of Rough Guides: 'Three US guides in the top 10. The Med, and especially Egypt, was strong, too, shaking off the Gulf war jitters.'