by
William Dawson Hooker, Miss E. Lowe, Edward Stanford
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The 19th-century boom in mass tourism, fuelled by the introduction of the railways, brought with it the rise of travel writing. Guided excursions such as "Cook's Tours" (the first of which was led by Thomas Cook in 1841, and went from Leicester to Loughborough) were not for everyone. Many...