{"product_id":"grand-tour-the-golden-age-of-travel","title":"The Grand Tour. The Golden Age of Travel","description":"Global travel can be a wearying business: mass tourism, overcrowded planes, chaotic airports, heightened security, cookie-cutter hotel chains, well-worn 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, \u003cb\u003eThe Golden Age of Travel evokes an era when traveling the world was a thrilling new possibility\u003c\/b\u003e for those with the resources, time, imagination, and daring.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This richly illustrated volume \u003cb\u003echarts the travel heyday of 1869 to 1939\u003c\/b\u003e. Bedecked with ephemera and precious turn-of-the-century photochromes, it follows \u003cb\u003esix classic tours\u003c\/b\u003e favored by Western adventurers in the prewar era, including such famous traveler-writers as \u003cb\u003eCharles Dickens, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and Goethe\u003c\/b\u003e. From the \u003cb\u003eGrand Tour of Europe\u003c\/b\u003e, a traditional rite of passage for young English aristocrats, to the \u003cb\u003eFar East\u003c\/b\u003e, barely touched by Western influence, to the famous \u003cb\u003eTrans-Siberian Railway\u003c\/b\u003e, we follow each journey through its itinerant stops and various modes of transport: trains, boats, cars, planes, horses, donkeys, and camels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With pages brimming with \u003cb\u003earchival travel posters, guides, tickets, leaflets, brochures, menus, and luggage stickers\u003c\/b\u003e, the book evokes all the romance, elegance, not to mention the sheer sense of novelty, that enthralled these golden-age passengers. Through decadent new cities, or wild, rugged terrains, this is your \u003cb\u003epassport to a long-lost epoch of adventure and wide-eyed wonder at the world\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"TASCHEN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42523588493348,"sku":"9783836585071","price":155.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783836585071.jpg?v=1779913011","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/grand-tour-the-golden-age-of-travel","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}