Narrative of a Spring Tour in Portugal. - Couverture souple

Smith, Alfred Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1241597316 ISBN 13 : 9781241597313

Editeur : British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011

Synopsis

Title: Narrative of a Spring Tour in Portugal.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Smith, Alfred Charles; 1870. 8 . 10161.bb.40.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

If anyone will be at the pains to look back twenty years, and compare the amount of foreign travel in which our. countrymen at that date indulged with the touring which prevails at present, he can hardly fail to be surprised at the enormous, rapid, and continued rate of increase in the development of what now may almost be called a passion of the English nation. The immediate cause which has so violently excited British restlessness, and so vehemently promoted foreign travel, has unquestionably been the extension of railways, which now form a network over the principal portions of Europe, and which offer such great facilities to tourists; and which, by diminishing the inconveniences and fatigue of travel, have, to a great extent, annihilated time and space, and enabled the infirm, the delicate, and even the confirmed invalid, to encounter distant journe3s, without alarm at the demands on physical endurance, which even a slight trip used formerly to entail.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: British Library, Historical Print Editions
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1241597316
• ISBN 13: 9781241597313
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible