Travel in mid-19th century Central and Eastern Europe

[Domen]

Three British travel guides published in 1865 in London:

1) Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland and Finland:

http://books.google.pl/books?id=1xI...snum=10&ved=0CGIQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q&f=false

2) Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Southern Germany:

http://books.google.pl/books?id=o9G...&resnum=1&ved=0CD0Q6wEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

3) Murray’s Handbook for Travellers on the Continent:

http://books.google.pl/books?id=xsUBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Have a nice read.

PS: "on the Continent" part includes:

 

[Lord Baal]

Cool. It's amazing how many people think travelling to foreign locations is a recent development. Tourism and pilgrimages are both as old as civilisation itself. It's simply a lot easier now.

 

[Yeekim]

Thank you, a fun read!

 

[Wrymouth3]

All these writings on the Great Western Railway makes me wish that certain class periods in high school on the Industrial Revolution would at least give it a mention. Nobody ever talks about Brunel in those cases.

 

[Silurian]

good find Domen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray's_Handbooks_for_Travellers

 

[Domen]

good find Domen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray's_Handbooks_for_Travellers

Even better find here! - looks like there were actually many more books in this series!

 

[Plotinus]

Very nice. Remember that the word "tourist" itself comes from the "Grand Tour", which was the early nineteenth-century version of the year out. Young people who had just finished university or come out in society would spend several months travelling Europe (mainly Italy) to educate themselves. Mérimée's Colomba starts off with such a Grand Tour, if memory serves.

 

[Lord Baal]

Very nice. Remember that the word "tourist" itself comes from the "Grand Tour", which was the early nineteenth-century version of the year out. Young people who had just finished university or come out in society would spend several months travelling Europe (mainly Italy) to educate themselves. Mérimée's Colomba starts off with such a Grand Tour, if memory serves.

I recall it being extremely common for well-to-do Scots to travel to Paris and Rome upon reaching adulthood during an earlier period. William Wallace is the most famous example. It wasn't called a Grand Tour then, of course; the visit to Rome was usually a pilgrimage, and the stop off in Paris was simply smart politics.