Sách - Tourists : How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves by Lucy Lethbridge (UK edition, hardcover)

Ships from and sold by EXPERAL Singapore Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Origin: United Kingdom (Imported) ISBN 13: 9781408856222 Condition: Brandnew Binding: hardcover Pages: 320 Dimensons: 234 x 153 x 31 | 610 (gram) ---------------------------------------- BOOK OF THE YEAR - SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR - THE MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR - FINANCIAL TIMES 'I really can't recommend this enough - especially if you are going on holiday' Tom Holland A brilliantly entertaining and authoritative history of two centuries of British tourism in continental Europe ‘It is the paramount wish of every English heart, ever addicted to vagabondizing, to hasten to the Continent…’ In 1815 the Battle of Waterloo brought to an end the Napoleonic Wars and the European continent opened up once again to British tourists. The nineteenth century was to be an age driven by steam technology, mass-industrialisation and movement, and, in the footsteps of the Grand Tourists a hundred years earlier, the British middle-classes flocked to Europe to see the sights. In Tourists, the voices of these travellers – puzzled, shocked, delighted and amazed – are brought vividly to life. From the dis of the stagecoach to the ‘self-contained pleasure palace’ of the beach resort, Lucy Lethbridge brilliantly examines two centuries of tourists’ experience. Among a range of disparate characters, we meet the commercial titans of Victorian tourism, Albert Smith, Henry Gaze and Thomas Cook, as well as their successor, Vladimir Raitz, the creator of the modern beach holiday. The growth of popular tourism introduced new markets in guidebooks, souvenirs, cuisine and health cures. It smoothed over class differences but also exacerbated them. It destroyed traditional cultures while at the same time preserving them. From portable cameras to postcards and suntans, Tourists explores how tourism has reflected changing attitudes to modernity and how, from the grand hotel to the campsite, the foreign holiday exposes deep fears, hopes and even longings for home. Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....