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Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. [1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa.
In 1828, Karl Baedeker (1801–59) published his first guidebook, Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln and in 1836 John Murray III’s (1808–92) first Handbook was released (Handbook for Travellers on the Continent).
Pages in category "John Murray (publishing house) books" The following 99 pages are in this category, out of 99 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Home and Colonial Library was a series of works published in London from 1843 to 1849, comprising 49 titles, by John Murray III.He founded it, as a series of cheap reprints, original works and translations, slanted towards travel literature in the broad sense, in the year of death of his father, John Murray II.
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The American Guide Series includes books and pamphlets published from 1937 to 1941 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a Depression-era program that was part of the larger Works Progress Administration in the United States. The American Guide Series books were compiled by the FWP, but printed by individual states, and ...
The company started with travel guides to Asia and later also published guides to the Americas. Bill Dalton was the founder and writer of the regularly updated Indonesian Handbook [2] from the 1970s. [3] [4] [5] The company is now based in Berkeley, California and published by Avalon Travel, a member of the Perseus Books Group.
The Key Words Reading Scheme, taking his ideas, was first published in 1964, with Peter and Jane, and went on to sell over 80 million copies of the books in the series. [4] Peter and Jane were based on the real-life children (Jill Ashurst and Christopher Edwards) [5] of a neighbour of the books' illustrator Harry Wingfield.