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Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook , produced his first handbook to England in the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond.
Between the Woods and the Water (1986) – The second part of the journey begun in A Time of Gifts, covering Hungary to Romania. Three Letters from the Andes (1991) The Broken Road (2013) – The third part of the journey narrated in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, covering Romania to Thrace. Camilo José Cela (1916–2002)
A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880.The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe.
Appletons' Hand-Book of American Travel: Southern Tour, 1873 Appletons' Railway & Steam Navigation Guide, December 1870. Appletons' travel guide books were published by D. Appleton & Company of New York.
In 1957, Arthur Frommer, then a corporal in the U.S. Army, wrote a travel guide for American GIs in Europe, and then produced a civilian version called Europe on $5 a Day. [3] The book ranked popular landmarks and sights in order of importance and included suggestions on how to travel around Europe on a budget.
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 ...
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The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. [2] Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867.