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The Grand Tour The Golden Age of Travel

Sabine Arqué
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Rediscover the golden age of travel
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 photochroms, 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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Dane bibliograficzne / Bibliographic info
Rodzaj (nośnik) / Type of product książka / book
Dział / Department Książki i czasopisma / Books and periodicals
Autor / Author Sabine Arqué
Tytuł / Title The Grand Tour
Podtytuł / Subtitle The Golden Age of Travel
Język / Language angielski, niemiecki, francuski
Wydawca / Publisher Taschen
Rok wydania / Published in year 2024
Rodzaj oprawy / Binding type Twarda z obwolutą
Wymiary / Size 25.0x35.0
Liczba stron / Number of pages 616
Ciężar / Weight 3.952 kg
   
ISBN 9783836585071 (9783836585071)
EAN/UPC 9783836585071
Stan produktu / Condition nowy / new - sprzedajemy wyłącznie nowe nieużywane produkty

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