Lucy Lethbridge
Tourists : How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves...
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FOYLES NONFICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHI really cant recommend this enough especially if you are going on holiday Tom HollandDelightful ... Lucy Lethbridge has written a glorious romp of a book Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on SundayIt is the paramount wish of every English heart, ever addicted to vagabondizing, to hasten to the Continent...In 1815 the Battle of Waterloo brought to an end the Napoleonic Wars and the European continent opened up once again to British tourists. The nineteenth century was to be an age driven by steam technology, massindustrialisation and movement, and, in the footsteps of the Grand Tourists a hundred years earlier, the British middleclasses flocked to Europe to see the sights.In Tourists, the voices of these travellers puzzled, shocked, delighted and amazed are brought vividly to life. From the discomfort of the stagecoach to the selfcontained pleasure palace of the beach resort, Lucy Lethbridge brilliantly examines two centuries of tourists experience. Among a range of disparate characters, we meet the commercial titans of Victorian tourism, Albert Smith, Henry Gaze and Thomas Cook, as well as their successor, Vladimir Raitz, the creator of the modern beach holiday. The growth of popular tourism introduced new markets in guidebooks, souvenirs, cuisine and health cures. It smoothed over class differences but also exacerbated them. It destroyed traditional cultures while at the same time preserving them.From portable cameras to postcards and...
Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc; Classification: HBTB; Weight: 342 g; Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22
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FOYLES NONFICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHI really cant recommend this enough especially if you are going on holiday Tom HollandDelightful ... Lucy Lethbridge has written a glorious romp of a book Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on SundayIt is the paramount wish of every English heart, ever addicted to vagabondizing, to hasten to the Continent...In 1815 the Battle of Waterloo brought to an end the Napoleonic Wars and the European continent opened up once again to British tourists. The nineteenth century was to be an age driven by steam technology, massindustrialisation and movement, and, in the footsteps of the Grand Tourists a hundred years earlier, the British middleclasses flocked to Europe to see the sights.In Tourists, the voices of these travellers puzzled, shocked, delighted and amazed are brought vividly to life. From the discomfort of the stagecoach to the selfcontained pleasure palace of the beach resort, Lucy Lethbridge brilliantly examines two centuries of tourists experience. Among a range of disparate characters, we meet the commercial titans of Victorian tourism, Albert Smith, Henry Gaze and Thomas Cook, as well as their successor, Vladimir Raitz, the creator of the modern beach holiday. The growth of popular tourism introduced new markets in guidebooks, souvenirs, cuisine and health cures. It smoothed over class differences but also exacerbated them. It destroyed traditional cultures while at the same time preserving them.From portable cameras to postcards and...
Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc; Classification: HBTB; Weight: 342 g; Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22
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