The Map Tour - A History of Tourism Told Through Rare Maps

Informationen zum Autor Hugh Thomson is a British author, filmmaker, and explorer whose books include The Green Road into the Trees , which won the 2014 Wainwright Prize for nature and travel writing. Hugh has an MA from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the RGS. From its founding in 1830, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) became the institution to which travelers and explorers of many nationalities came for advice and recognition. Over the years it has amassed a collection of more than one million maps from across the world. Klappentext Published in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society! instances of revealing vintage cartography are analysed to present the developing history of tourism. Zusammenfassung An exquisite collection of maps tracing the evolution of tourism from the late 1600s to the elite realms of the Grand Tour and then beyond the boundaries of the known world.

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Thompson, Hugh Thomson
• Publisher: Welbeck
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.2018
• EAN: 9780233005560
• ISBN: 978-0-233-00556-0
• Series: Y
• Subject: Travel > Maps, city plans, atlases > World, Arctic, Antarctic