The Grand Tour. The Golden Age of Travel wer. angielska

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Wydawnictwo:	Taschen
Oprawa:	Twarda
Rok wydania:	2024
Ilość stron:	616

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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 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 E

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Autor: Sabine Arqué
Wydawnictwo Taschen
Oprawa: Twarda
Rok wydania: 2024
Ilość stron: 616
Stan: nowy, pełnowartościowy produkt
Model: 9783836585071
Język: angielski, niemiecki, francuski
Podtytuł: The Golden Age of Travel
ISBN: 9783836585071
EAN: 9783836585071
Wymiary: 25.0x35.0x5 cm
Dane producenta: TASCHEN GmbH, Hohenzollernring 53, D-50672 Cologne, Niemcy, contact@taschen.com, tel. 49221201800

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