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Author	Parsons, Nicholas.
Title	Worth the detour : a history of the guidebook / Nicholas T. Parson.
Publication Info.	Stroud, Gloucestershire [England] : Sutton Pub., 2007.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 1	910.4 P	IN LIBRARY

Description	xxii, 378 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The ancient world -- Late antiquity and the Middle Ages : the pilgrims' guides -- From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment : scholars, moralists and men of taste -- The bourgeois traveller and the beginnings of mass tourism -- From inventory to ideology : aspects of the modern guidebook -- Epilogue : mind-travelling and the survival of the guidebook.
Subject	Tourism -- History.
	Travel -- History.
	Travelers' writings -- History and criticism.
	Guidebooks -- History.
	Travel, Ancient.
Added Author	New York Society Library. Book Committee. 2008. ZNS
Added Title	History of the guidebook
ISBN	9780750943932 (hbk.)
	0750943939 (hbk.)
	9780750943947 (pbk.)

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