The Portable Paradise: Baedeker, Murray and the Victorian Guidebook

by JonathanKeates (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $3.47

  Generations of English tourists have been dependent on travel guides, whether for information on art history, or for practical advice. Keates's lively cultural history of the guide-book, based on his own unparalleled collection, shows that the Englishman has always revealed most about himself when he is abroad.