The author describes the lessons she learned about independence while traveling in Paris, London, Oxford, and throughout Italy.
In the tradition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea and Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, in Without Reservations we take time off with Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach as she explores the world and rediscovers what it means to be a woman on her own. "In many …
England: Fodoor's Travel Intelligence
With its irresistible mix of storied heritage and cosmopolitan pizzazz, England attracts more than three million Americans each year. "Fodor's England" captures the most memorable sights and experiences in dazzling color, from fabulous historic houses and age-mellowed towns to c…
A travel writing classic ready to be rediscovered, Europe in the Looking Glass describes, with a mixture of laugh-out-loud humour and perceptive commentary on art and architecture, how three rich young Englishmen cross pre-World-War-Two Europe in an old car. Best known as the au…
Robert Byron is best known for The road to Oxiana, but this book was written twelve years earlier. Byron and three friends set off in 1925 to travel across Europe from Hamburg to Athens. Byron's skill as a travel writer evokes a picture of Europe in the 1920's that was soon to b…
First published in 1985, this is a scholarly analysis of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the 18th century to complete their education - a tour usually to France, Italy and Switzerland, and sometimes encompassing Germany.
First published in 1985, this is a scholarly analysis of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the 18th century to complete their education - a tour usually to France, Italy and Switzerland, and sometimes encompassing Germany.
Introduction: imagining the continent -- Hybrid gardens: nationalization of taste, travel writing, and Ann Radcliffe's Continental landscape -- The occidentalist costume: Lord Byron and travelers' perspectives on Eastern Europe -- From the prison of the nation: tourism, Anglo-It…