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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.
These rediscovered Photochrom and Photostint postcard images from
the private collection of Marc Walter were produced by the Detroit
Photographic Company between 1888 and 1924. Using a
photolithographic process that predated the autochrome by nearly 20
years, they offered people the very first color photographs of the
United States. Suddenly, the continent's colors were available for
all to see. From the rich ochres and browns of the Grand Canyon to
the dazzle of Atlantic City, these places were now a visual delight
not only for eyewitnesses but for Americans far and wide. Imbued
with a sense of discovery and adventure, the pictures gathered here
are a voyage through peoples, places, and time. They take us
through North America's vast and varied landscape, where we
encounter its many communities, and above all transport us back to
the United States of over a century ago. Across more than 600 pages
including fold-out spreads, this sweeping panorama takes us from
Native American settlements to New York's Chinatown, from some of
the last cowboys to Coney Island's heyday. As luminous now as they
were some 120 years ago, these rare and remarkable images that
brought America to Americans now bring America's past to our
present.
The turn of the 20th century seemed full of promise for Germany.
The suburbs may have teemed with tenements to house the new
industrial proletariat, but on spacious new avenues in the city
centres, people strolled proudly past magnificent bourgeois
residences. The economy was booming, the aristocracy and the
military enjoyed unlimited social prestige, and most of the
population revered the Kaiser. Through some 800 color pictures,
this book presents turn-of-the-century Germany as it liked to see
herself: self-confident, glittering, patriotic but also with a
belief in progress and - for those who could afford it - a
cosmopolitan flair. As in the critically acclaimed America 1900 the
images are all rare examples of the historical photochrom process,
a printing technique that allowed black-and-white photographs to be
reproduced in colour. From Ludwig II's fairy-tale castles in the
Bavarian Alps to glamourous bathing resorts on the North Sea and
Baltic, the pictures reveal a Germany of optimism, beauty, and
transformation. Technical innovations and modern boulevards sit
alongside medieval towns, rural traditions, and mystical forests,
creating a fascinating and nostalgic panorama of a long lost epoch
before the ravages of time and history set in.
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