Let's Go is the first and only travel guide guide series aimed at the student traveler. Researched, written, edited, and run entirely by students at Harvard University, Let's Go was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
The first Let's Go guide was a 20-page mimeographed pamphlet put together by an ambitious 18-year-old Harvard freshman named Oliver Koppell, to be handed out on student charter flights to Europe. The first profess...
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Let's Go is the first and only travel guide guide series aimed at the student traveler. Researched, written, edited, and run entirely by students at Harvard University, Let's Go was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
The first Let's Go guide was a 20-page mimeographed pamphlet put together by an ambitious 18-year-old Harvard freshman named Oliver Koppell, to be handed out on student charter flights to Europe. The first professionally published guide was issued in 1961. Early guides tended to be freewheeling, for example advising travelers on motorbiking through Southeast Asia in the late 1960s and financing travel in Europe by singing in the street. The first edition included tips on traveling from Europe to Asia on just four cents, by taking the ferry across the Bosphorus.
Ever "witty and irreverent," Let's Go books are produced by traveling student researcher-writers, who send raw copy to teams of editors and cartographers (also students) in the United States....
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