The Grand Tour. The Golden Age of Travel (Multilingual Edition)

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The Grand Tour
Rediscover the golden age of adventure

Global commute could 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 now and again feel inconceivable. 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 once a thrilling new possibility for those with the resources, time, imagination, and daring.

This richly illustrated volume charts the commute 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 and every journey through its itinerant stops and more than a few modes of transport: trains, boats, cars, planes, horses, donkeys, and camels.

With pages brimming with archival commute posters, guides, tickets, leaflets, brochures, menus, and luggage stickers, the book evokes all of 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.

To commute is to live in all of the meaning of the word… to breathe the free air, feel the joy of living, to develop into an integral a part of creation.
Alexandre Dumas

Text in English, French, and German

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