NOSTALGIC JOURNEYS TEXT BY STEFAN BITTERLE

9 5/6 x 12 3/5 in.256 pp, 87 color and 74 b/w photographsHardcover with jacket A unique cultural history of travel and tourism in the 19th and 20th centuriesThis volume will awaken feelings of both nostalgia and wanderlust Full of historic photographs that will amaze and delight  Relax by the ocean or head to the mountains? This vacation planning debate-starter is actually a fairly recent invention. To people of an earlier era, both options seemed unappealing and nearly impossible to visit. It wasn’t until railroads came along that remote areas  became accessible, making travel agency founder, Thomas Cook, the inventor of modern tourism as well. Fishing villages turned into swanky beach resorts, out-of-the-way mountain hamlets became hot destinations for hikers and skiers, and humble inns blossomed into grand hotels. Nostalgic Journeys takes you on an unforgettable trip through the last two centuries: ride the Orient Express to the Middle East, cross the Atlantic on an enormous