Description
Book SynopsisTourism - a product of the Victorian era, hugely developed through Edwardian times - generated thousands of fascinating books and photographs which together define the development of the massive industry which we know today.
This book explores Victorian and Edwardian Britain through the guidebooks which were published between 1850 and 1910, and the images which tourists bought and collected. The introduction of statutory holidays, the increasing wealth of the Victorian middle classes, and the expanding railway and steamship networks, all helped develop the emerging tourist industry - and, of course, the invention of photography at around the same time led to the widespread craze for collecting photographs of places visited.
Pre-eminent in the evolution of tourism for the masses was Thomas Cook, whose package holidays were not the first, but whose prices expanded the market hugely. The package tour increased demand for descriptive texts, and early guidebooks by Sylvan
Table of Contents
Preface / Travelling in Time / Thomas Cook’s Tours / The Ubiquitous Guidebook / David Macbrayne’s Royal Routes / Exploring the English Lakes / ‘On the Continong’ / Mementoes of an Italian Tour / Taking the Grand tour of Egypt / Touring with a Camera / Index
