1st Edition

Emergence of the World Tour (ES 5-vol. set)

Edited By Hisako Ito Copyright 2011
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This is a facsimile reprint in five volumes of nine travel guides and handbooks published for Western travellers in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. The opening of the Suez Canal and the transcontinental ‘Pacific’ railway in America, both in 1869, made the world drastically smaller and initiated a new phase of word travel. Regular international services by steamships and the... Read more

Biography

Hisako Ito