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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 ...
The availability of the books by Baedeker and Murray helped sharpen and formalize the complementary genre of the personal travelogue, which was freed from the burden of serving as a guide book. [16] The Baedeker and Murray guide books were hugely popular and were standard resources for travelers well into the 20th century.
Paul Theroux (born 1941) – prolific travel writer; author of nearly two dozen books of travel writing. The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) – Theroux's most popular travel work. The Old Patagonian Express (1979) Travelling The World - The Illustrated Travels of Paul Theroux (1990) The Happy Isles of Oceania (1992) The Pillars of Hercules (1995)
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John Murray (1745–1793), the eponymous founder of the publishing house. The business was founded in London, England, in 1768 by John Murray (1737–1793), [1] an Edinburgh-born Royal Marines officer, who built up a list of authors including Isaac D'Israeli and published the English Review.
The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag.
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.