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Arque Sabine - The Grand Tour. The Golden Age Of Travel - Hardcover
Arque Sabine - The Grand Tour. The Golden Age Of Travel - Hardcover
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Description: 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.
Title: The Grand Tour. The Golden Age Of Travel
Author(s): Arque Sabine, Marc Walter
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836585071
Pages: 616 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/4/2021
Category: Photography & Photographs
Description: 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.
Title: The Grand Tour. The Golden Age Of Travel
Author(s): Arque Sabine, Marc Walter
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836585071
Pages: 616 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/4/2021
Category: Photography & Photographs
