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New English titles during this time were 1927's Tyrol and the Dolomites, 1931's The Riviera (including South Eastern France and Corsica), an edition of Germany for the 1936 Olympic Games, and 1939's Madeira, Canary Islands, Azores, Western Morocco. In Britain, the guides have been published in collaboration with the British Automobile Association (The AA) and in the USA by Macmillan Travel, a Simon & Schuster Macmillan company. This is the account of Spain given in the 1914 Baedeker Guide. These small, red books, bound in leather, were the first recourse for an Englishman abroad in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Part 3 (Southern Italy, Sicily, and excursions to the Lipari Islands, Tunis, Sardinia, Malta, and Athens) at the Internet Archive (or Part 3 (Southern Italy and Sicily) at the Internet Archive) Fritz Baedeker's released 39 guidebooks in German from 1872 to 1925, and 21 in English from 1872 to 1914. Twelve French titles were published between 1882 and 1910. Spain and Portugal (3rded.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1908, OCLC 1581249– via Internet Archive + indexThe guide explains that while the ‘evil sanitary reputation of Naples’ is often exaggerated, it remains a filthy city. The southern Italians, Baedeker explains, believe the ‘brilliancy’ of their climate more than makes up for the dirt. Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 1328163 . ( Index).

Northern Germany, as far as the Bavarian and Austrian frontiers (12thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1897, OCLC 03058615 . Stunning images show the bewitching beauty of Eastern Europe, from fairytale castles to sun-drenched beaches (and it's cheap to visit, too) He prized himself on the accuracy of his books and was once discovered keeping count of how many stairs there were to the roof of Milan cathedral by placing a coin on every 20th step. He wanted his readers to know exactly how far they would have to climb. Paris and its environs, with routes from London to Paris, and from Paris to the Rhine and Switzerland (10thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1891, OCLC 04872435 .Southern Germany and Austria, including Hungary and Transylvania (4thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1880, OCLC 03764032 The Riviera. South-Eastern France and Corsica, the Italian Lakes and Lake of Geneva (1sted.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1931

Starke’s book languished as a little-used guide for over a decade, primarily because Europe was still embroiled in the Napoleonic Wars and worryingly short of congenial hotels. Things changed in 1815 when the Congress of Vienna ushered in a protracted period of peace, and European ladies and gentlemen of means, inspired by the poetic prose of writers like Byron, expressed an increasing desire to travel abroad. Verlag Karl Baedeker, founded by Karl Baedeker on 1 July 1827, is a German publisher and pioneer in the business of worldwide travel guides. The guides, often referred to simply as " Baedekers" (a term sometimes used to refer to similar works from other publishers, or travel guides in general), contain, among other things, maps and introductions; information about routes and travel facilities; and descriptions of noteworthy buildings, sights, attractions and museums, written by specialists.Wagner & Debes made a very important contribution to the guidebooks, providing them not only with the best maps in the world, many in color, but also with superb ground plans of palaces, churches, gardens, museums and castles, and with some extraordinary panoramas of Alpine ranges and other such two-star vistas." Map of Switzerland, published in a 1913 Baedeker travel guide Forget Lapland! We reveal 17 incredible UK Christmas attractions, from a reindeer safari in Wales to husky sledge rides in Scotland and England's very own 'Elven World' As the map of Europe had been largely redrawn since Starke’s 1802 guide, the author – by then well into her 50s – produced a more comprehensive update. Published in 1820, Information and Directions for Travellers on the Continent covered Europe from Portugal to Russia and was stuffed with pithy advice on “tolerable” inns, how to hire a horse carriage and the variable state of the continent’s post-roads.