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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.
Cover of: Murray's Handbook for Travellers in Turkey in Asia including Constantinople, the Bosphorus, Dardanelles, Brousa and Plain of Troy. 2nd ed. Published by John Murray, London, 1871 Date 1871
John Murray's Handbook of Travel-Talk (1847) includes a section entitled "Accidents on a Journey". It gives English, French, German and Italian translation suggestions for a variety of mishaps which might befall a traveller, such as one's postillion becoming injured, or finding oneself in stormy weather:
A Handbook for Travellers in Spain is an 1845 work of travel literature by English writer Richard Ford.It has been described as a defining moment in the genre. British tourists were travelling through Europe in increasing numbers and the need for guidebooks was beginning to be supplied by publishers like John Murray.
Mark Antony Lower, founder of the Sussex Archaeological Society, called it a "modern brick structure, which we cannot commend, as it is a kind of hybrid between a castle and a barn", [17] while the 1868 edition of Murray's Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex was blunter, calling it "modern, and ugly". [18]
Mitch Murray CBE (born Lionel Michael Stitcher; 30 January 1940) [1] is an English songwriter, record producer and author. He has won two Ivor Novello Awards, including the Jimmy Kennedy Award. Murray has written, or co-written, songs that have produced five UK and three US chart-topping records. [2]
Murray's Magazine was a monthly magazine published by the John Murray publishing house. Sixty issues were published, from January 1887 through to December 1891. It was priced at 1/- (one shilling). The magazine included limited amounts of fiction, including works by Thomas Hardy; Vernon Lee (as "Amour Dure") in January 1887; Emily Lawless ...
He was born in Edinburgh on 24 October 1868, the eldest son of Alexander Erskine Erskine-Murray , Sheriff of Glasgow (1832-1907), and his wife, Helen Pringle, [1] daughter of Robert Pringle of Symington. [2] In 1886 he began study under Lord Kelvin at Glasgow University assisting Kelvin in electrical experiments from 1888 and graduating BSc in ...