Global travel can be a wearying business: mass tourism, overcrowded planes, chaotic airports, heightened security, cookie-cutter hotel chains, well-worn tourist trails. Finding even a sliver of adventure can sometimes feel impossible. But take heart: for all of us with an unfulfilled spirit of wanderlust, The Golden Age of Travel evokes an era when traveling the world was a thrilling new possibility for those with the resources, time, imagination, and daring. This richly illustrated volume charts the travel heyday of 1869 ...
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Global travel can be a wearying business: mass tourism, overcrowded planes, chaotic airports, heightened security, cookie-cutter hotel chains, well-worn tourist trails. Finding even a sliver of adventure can sometimes feel impossible. But take heart: for all of us with an unfulfilled spirit of wanderlust, The Golden Age of Travel evokes an era when traveling the world was a thrilling new possibility for those with the resources, time, imagination, and daring. This richly illustrated volume charts the travel heyday of 1869 to 1939. Bedecked with ephemera and precious turn-of-the-century photochromes, it follows six classic tours favored by Western adventurers in the prewar era, including such famous traveler-writers as Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and Goethe. From the Grand Tour of Europe, a traditional rite of passage for young English aristocrats, to the Far East, barely touched by Western influence, to the famous Trans-Siberian Railway, we follow each journey through its itinerant stops and various modes of transport: trains, boats, cars, planes, horses, donkeys, and camels. With pages brimming with archival travel posters, guides, tickets, leaflets, brochures, menus, and luggage stickers, the book evokes all the romance, elegance, not to mention the sheer sense of novelty, that enthralled these golden-age passengers. Through decadent new cities, or wild, rugged terrains, this is your passport to a long-lost epoch of adventure and wide-eyed wonder at the world.
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Near Fine Condition in Near Fine jacket. 9783836549776. Travel History 19th century. VG+/VG+ 1st edition 2018 very substantial, high quality Taschen hardback, unclipped DJ, illustrated throughout. Minor signs of previous usage and handling, some finger marks to gold of front end-paper, a little surface rubbing wear to edges and corners of dust-jacket, VG+ bright and unmarked. Size: 41 cm. 615 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Exploration; Travel History 19th century; ISBN: 3836549778. ISBN/EAN: 9783836549776. Dewey Code: 910.4. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 090815.
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Very Good. Size: 12x18x2; Like new in original publishers box. Box has light wear and small taped tear on top at handle. Text unmarked, pages clean and bright, binding tight. Ships Next Business Day.
