The map Tour : : a History of Tourism Told Through Rare Maps : From the Grand Tour to Globalization

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Call Number: 910.9 Th
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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I. Cultural travel 1680-1810. A tour of the whole island of Great Britain ; The Western Isles ; The South Sea bubble ; The grand tour: France -- The grand tour: Italy ; The grand tour: Rome ; The end of the grand tour: Byron in the Mediterranean -- II. Adventurous travel 1810-1900. Select views of the lake district ; Where the pyramids still stand ; A sense of space and distance: the geography of the Holy Land ; La serenissima: Venice ; The Alhambra ; Scrambles amongst the Alps ; The teardrop island ; Around the world on a bicycle ; Making the planet a smaller place ; Through Persia on a mule ; India's summer capital of pleasure -- III. Personal travel 1900-1970. Go and look beyond the ranges ; The monuments of Paris ; The last of the windjammers ; Travelling the oceans in style ; On the road ; Afghanistan: the land of hospitality ; Wainwright's heartland: the Western Fells of the Lake District.
The Map Tour' is an exquisite collection of maps tracing the evolution of tourism from the late 1600s to the elite realms of the Grand Tour and then beyond the boundaries of the known world. Produced with the Royal Geographical Society, with access to their archives of rare maps, it charts a course across the globe on the first steam voyages, captures the romance of the golden age of train travel and navigates to the heart of why we travel. 0Arranged chronologically and including personal anecdotes, diary extracts and photographs of intrepid early travellers, The Map Tour looks at the ways in which maps facilitated and directed the travel industry. It reveals the progress in mapmaking techniques and shows how people used maps to navigate and understand the world. It considers the shape of global tourism today, reflecting on just how accessible the world has become.

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