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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,&,nbsp,The Golden Age of Travel&,nbsp,evokes an era when traveling the world was a thrilling new possibility&,nbsp,for those with the resources, time, imagination, and daring.This richly illustrated volume&,nbsp,charts the travel heyday of 1869 to 1939. Bedecked with ephemera and precious turn-of-the-century photochroms, it follows&,nbsp,six classic tours&,nbsp,favored by Western adventurers in the prewar era, including such famous traveler-writers as&,nbsp,Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and Goethe. From the&,nbsp,Grand Tour of Europe, a traditional rite-of-passage for young English aristocrats, to the&,nbsp,Far East, barely touched by Western influence, to the famous&,nbsp,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&,nbsp,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&,nbsp,passport to a long-lost epoch of adventure and wide-eyed wonder at the world.
| EAN : | 9783836549776 |
| Katalógové číslo: | 1229411 |
| Rok vydania: | 2017 |
| Jazyk: | anglický |
| Počet strán: | 616 |
| Väzba: | pevná väzba |
| Rozmer: | 290x395 mm |
| Hmotnosť: | 6570 g |
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