Leading the Blind: A Century of Guidebook Travel 1815-1914

Alan Sillitoe

Language: English

Publisher: Papermac

Published: Mar 15, 1996

Description:

This work constructs a piece of social history to convey what it was like to travel the world in the 100 years leading up to World War I. By becoming an imaginary 19th-century armchair tourist, the author discovers such dangers as alpine climbing in Switzerland and the gaming houses of Germany. **