Travel

Global travel can be a wearying business: mass tourism, overcrowded planes, chaotic airports, heightened security, cookiecutter hotel chains, wellworn tourist trails. Finding even a sliver of adventure can sometimes feel impossible. But take heart: for all of us with an unfulfilled spirit of wanderlust, The Golden Age of Travel evokes an era when traveling the world was a thrilling new possibility for those with the resources, time, imagination, and daring. This richly illustrated volume charts the travel heyday of 1869 to 1939. Bedecked with ephemera and precious turnofthecentury photochromes, it follows six classic tours favored by Western adventurers in the prewar era, including such famous travelerwriters as Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and Goethe. From the Grand Tour of Europe, a traditional rite of passage for young English aristocrats, to the Far East, barely touched by Western influence, to the famous TransSiberian Railway, we follow each journey through its itinerant stops and various modes of transport: trains, boats, cars, planes, horses, donkeys, and camels. With pages brimming with archival travel posters, guides, tickets, leaflets, brochures, menus, and luggage stickers, the book evokes all the romance, elegance, not to mention the sheer sense of novelty, that enthralled these goldenage passengers. Through decadent new cities, or wild, rugged terrains, this is your passport to a longlost epoch of adventure and wideeyed wonder at the world.