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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). The first Baedeker in English, The Rhine (1861), was published jointly by Baedeker and Murray. These handbooks were to become the ...
Compared with other guides such as Murray's, Cook's aimed at "a broader and less sophisticated middle-class audience." [1] The books served to advertise Cook's larger business of organizing travel tours. [1] The series continues today as Traveller Guides issued by Thomas Cook Publishing of Peterborough, England. [2]
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Fellow Travelers the series might expand upon the world that Mallon built, but Nyswaner didn’t want to give up any of what made the book so special—including the way that Fuller and Laughlin ...
John Ogden Murray (c. 1840 – 1921) was a major in the Confederate Army, an author, [1] and a newspaper editor. He is credited with coining the phrase "Immortal Six Hundred." [2] He wrote a firsthand account of Confederate prisoners of war. [3] The Virginia Museum of History and Culture has a collection of his papers. [4]