MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2008425474
003 DLC
005 20081213091551.0
008 081002s2007 enkabf b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780750943932 (hbk.)
020 $a0750943939 (hbk.)
020 $z9780750943947 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn148780459
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050 00 $aG156$b.P37 2007
082 00 $a910$222
100 1 $aParsons, Nicholas.
245 10 $aWorth the detour :$ba history of the guidebook /$cNicholas T. Parson.
246 30 $aHistory of the guidebook
260 $aStroud, Gloucestershire [England] :$bSutton Pub.,$c2007.
300 $axxii, 378 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [293]-359) and index.
505 0 $aThe ancient world -- Late antiquity and the Middle Ages : the pilgrims' guides -- From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment : scholars, moralists and men of taste -- The bourgeous 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.
650 0 $aTourism$xHistory.
650 0 $aTravelers' writings$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aTravel$xHistory.
650 0 $aTravel, Ancient.