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THE PORTABLE PARADISE
BAEDEKER, MURRAY AND THE VICTORIAN GUIDEBOOK |
| By: |
Jonathan Keates |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£10.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1907903038 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781907903038 |
| Publisher: |
NOTTING HILL EDITIONS |
| Pub. date: |
22 November, 2012 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
Generations of English tourists have been dependent on travel guides, whether for information on art history, or for practical advice. Keates's lively cultural history of the guide-book, based on his own unparalleled collection, shows that the Englishman has always revealed most about himself when he is abroad. |
| Synopsis: |
Lucy Honeychurch is nonplussed in E.M. Forster's A Room with a View when she finds herself "in Santa Croce with no Baedeker". Like her, generations of English tourists have been dependent on travel guides, whether for information on art history, or for practical advice. Nineteenth century manuals offered hints on everything from Japanese shoe-laces ("hippopotamus hide is best") to useful foreign phrases ("Are the postilions insolent?") Jonathan Keates is the acclaimed author of books on Venice and on Stendhal (the French Romantic author who was so overcome by the glories of Florence that he suffered a breakdown, giving his name to "Stendhal syndrome"). Keates's lively cultural history of the guide-book, based on his own unparalleled collection, shows that the English have always revealed most about themselves when abroad. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Notting Hill Editions |
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Non-returnable |
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