Description
Product ID: | 9781908402028 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Bradshaw’s Handbook |
Authors: | Author: George Bradshaw |
Page Count: | 512 |
Subjects: | Industrialisation and industrial history, Industrialisation & industrial history, Trains and railways: general interest, Classic travel writing, Trains & railways: general interest, Classic travel writing |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s - Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile. Collector''s item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s – Bradshaw''s Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile. Produced as the British railway network was reaching its zenith, and as tourism by rail became a serious pastime, it was the first national tourist guide specifically organized around railway journeys, and to this day offers a glimpse through the carriage window at a Britain long past. |
Imprint Name: | Old House Books |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2012-01-10 |