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May 4, 2020 · How travel guidebooks charted and changed the world. Referenced by generations of globe-trotting travelers and kept on bookshelves as dusty, dog-eared souvenirs, guidebooks have played an influential role in dissecting and shaping travel culture for over 200 years. In contrast to the inherently fleeting attractions of the internet, these well ...
A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [1] It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities. Maps of varying detail and historical and cultural information are often included.
Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. [1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa. According to scholar James Buzard, the Murray style "exemplified the exhaustive rational ...
Jan 1, 2024 · David Dawson January 1, 2024. For over 150 years, the name “Baedeker” has been synonymous with travel guidebooks. Baedeker guides, often simply called “Baedekers,” were the premiere travel guides used by millions of travelers starting in the mid-19th century. They set the standard for modern-day guidebooks, influencing everything from ...
Jun 21, 2024 · Their second guidebook, South East Asia on a Shoestring, had sold well, just like their first. (Tony had chosen a different layout for the book. He liked the handy size and two-column format of Reader’s Digest and thought it would work well for a travel guidebook, too. The format would remain pretty much unchanged for nearly fifty years.)
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Aug 20, 2018 · The next travel book Gazzola showed me had a detailed, beautifully printed frontispiece. And a very long title: Quae intus continentur Syria, Palestina, Arabia, Aegyptus, Schondia, Holmiae ...
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Jun 21, 2022 · Among the first travel guides responding to the emergent European tourism market by putting emphasis on practicalities was Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard’s Handbuch für Reisende aus allen Ständen (1784). The handbook’s title—a handbook for all social ranks—hints to the fact that by the end of the eighteenth century the days when traveling was considered mostly a privilege of the ...
