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The front cover of the 1972 first US edition of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe. The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe (ISBN 0-8128-1446-0) was a travel guide, by "Australian expatriate" [1] Ken Welsh, and first published in 1971 in the UK by Pan Books. A first American edition was published in 1972 by Stein and Day, New York, NY, US.
Through his influential hiker's guide, The Complete Walker, published the same year, he became a kind of "spiritual godfather" of the wilderness backpacking movement. Through successive editions, this book became the definitive work on the topic and was christened "the Hiker's Bible" by Field & Stream magazine.
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[citation needed] In the 17th century, Italian adventurer Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri was likely one of the first people to engage in backpacker tourism. [4] The modern popularity of backpacking can be traced, at least partially, to the hippie trail of the 1960s and 1970s, [5] which in turn followed sections of the old Silk Road.
Footprint Travel Guides is the imprint of Footprint Handbooks Ltd, a publisher of guidebooks based in Bath in the United Kingdom. Particularly noted for their coverage of Latin America, their South American Handbook, first published in 1924, is in its 90th edition and is updated annually.
On a Chinese Screen (1922) – vignettes of China from the master of the short story. Yone Noguchi (1875–1947) The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (1903) Jack London (1876-1916) The Cruise of the Snark (1911) Isidora Sekulic (1877–1958) Pisma iz Norveške / Letters from Norway (1914) Hermann von Keyserling (1880–1946)
It documents the author's tour of Europe in 1990, with flashbacks to summer tours he made in his college days. [2] On his 1972 tour, he travelled with his friend Matt Angerer, pseudonymised in the book as Stephen Katz, who also appeared more prominently in Bryson's later book A Walk in the Woods , as well as in The Life and Times of the ...
"Europe" is a short story by Henry James first published in Scribner's Magazine in June, 1899. In his preface to the story in the New York Edition (1907–1909) of his fiction, James says he got one hint for this domestic tragicomedy from a visit to an elderly lady who largely lived in her recollections of an early trip to Europe. James later ...