The Portable Paradise

The Portable Paradise Baedeker, Murray, and the Victorian Guidebook

Hardback (04 Apr 2011)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Jonathan Keates's passion for collecting historic guidebooks has resulted in a beguiling work of cultural archaeology, which explores the experience of travel for the British before the First World War. Unlike Lucy Honeychurch in E.M.Forster's A Room with a View, he revels in Baedeker, Murray and other Victorian examples, taking us on a poignant, funny and often revealing tour through this undiscovered genre.

Book information

ISBN: 9781907903021
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Imprint: Notting Hill Editions
Pub date:
DEWEY: 070.50941
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 106
Weight: 168g
Height: 146mm
Width: 193mm
Spine width: 15mm