Global travel can be a wearying business: mass tourism, overcrowded
planes, chaotic airports, heightened security, cookie-cutter hotel
chains, well-worn tourist trails. Finding even a sliver of
adventure can sometimes feel impossible. But take heart: for all of
us with an unfulfilled spirit of wanderlust, The Golden Age of
Travel evokes an era when traveling the world was a thrilling new
possibility for those with the resources, time, imagination, and
daring. This richly illustrated volume charts the travel heyday of
1869 to 1939. Bedecked with ephemera and precious
turn-of-the-century photochroms, it follows six classic tours
favored by Western adventurers in the prewar era, including such
famous traveler-writers as Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and Goethe. From the Grand Tour of Europe,
a traditional rite of passage for young English aristocrats, to the
Far East, barely touched by Western influence, to the famous
Trans-Siberian Railway, we follow each journey through its
itinerant stops and various modes of transport: trains, boats,
cars, planes, horses, donkeys, and camels. With pages brimming with
archival travel posters, guides, tickets, leaflets, brochures,
menus, and luggage stickers, the book evokes all the romance,
elegance, not to mention the sheer sense of novelty, that
enthralled these golden-age passengers. Through decadent new
cities, or wild, rugged terrains, this is your passport to a
long-lost epoch of adventure and wide-eyed wonder at the world.
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