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Italy; Handbook For Travellers (Third Part)

Italy; Handbook For Travellers (Third Part)

Baedeker, K.

Paperback

General World HistoryBritish HistoryNortheast

ISBN10: 9354501214
ISBN13: 9789354501210
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 522
Weight: 1.67
Height: 1.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Meet Italy as a traveller once did: measured in minutes, francs, and marvels. Travel like Baedeker, not guesswork. Italy; Handbook For Travellers (Third Part) is a classic travel guidebook from K. Baedeker, the name that shaped the Victorian travel handbook and set the standard as an independent travelers reference. Built for practical use yet rich in atmosphere, it guides readers through 19th century Italy with clear priorities: what deserves your time, how to get there, and how to understand what you are seeing. Expect illustrated maps and plans, concise notes on Italian art and architecture, and sharply organised information on routes, railways and steamers, hotels, fees, and local customs. Read it as an armchair itinerary, or dip in for crisp context on galleries, churches, streetscapes and ruins; Baedeker's precise distances and timetables make the logistics of movement feel satisfyingly real. For collectors, it stands as a handsome vintage guidebook reprint. A landmark in pre-WWI European travel and among the great Baedeker travel guides, this volume also sits in conversation with John Murray handbooks, capturing the age when travel was both scholarship and adventure. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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