Before Baedeker: Travel Guidebooks to 1840
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The Book Club of California
312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United States
The late 19th century has been labelled the “Baedeker Era” after the famous series of compact, bright-red travel guides published simultaneously in German, English, and French. The Baedeker guides’ trademark characteristics – systematic, impersonal, regularly updated, in a portable format packed with practical information and complementary maps – have served as a template for all […]