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A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [41] An early example is Thomas West's guide to the English Lake District, published in 1778. [42] Thomas West, an English priest, popularized the idea of walking for pleasure in his guide to the Lake District of 1778. In the ...
Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa and the Holy Land (1837) Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Poland (1838) Incidents of Travel in Central American, Chiapas and Yucatán (1841) Incidents of Travel in Yucatán (1843) Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) Journey to America (1831–1832) Nehemiah Adams (1806-1878)
First edition with artwork by John Craxton. A Time of Gifts (1977) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor.Published by John Murray when the author was 62, it is a memoir of the first part of Leigh Fermor's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople (officially Istanbul) in 1933/34.
Title page from History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817), Thomas Hookham, Jr. and Charles and James Ollier, London.. History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni is a travel narrative by the English Romantic authors Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
In 1890, Knight made trips to Kashmir and the Himalayas to gather research for his book, Where Three Empires Meet. He started his journey in Ladakh and continued to Gilgit . He made it to Gilgit in time to join the fight in 1891 when the British forces led by Colonel Algernon Durand began a military campaign against the smaller states of Hunza ...
The Narrative of Robert Adams; Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan; The Negro Motorist Green Book; Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe; No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach; Notes from a Big Country; Notes from My Travels; Notes from the Outernet
The main character in the first part of each chapter is you, the reader. The narrative starts out when you begin reading a book but then all of the pages are out of order. You then go to a bookstore to get a new copy of the book. When at the bookstore, you meet a girl, Ludmilla, who becomes an important character in the book.
A children's cartoon where, using books, three children travel through time and space. Based on the books by Jon Scieszka. 2006 2011 Torchwood: Russell T Davies Chris Chibnall Jane Espenson John Fay: Humans and aliens from different periods in time start to come to Earth by means of a rift in the space/time continuum. (Spin-off from Doctor Who ...