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The Golden Age of Air Travel

Author : Nina Hadaway
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747813477
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Air Travel written by Nina Hadaway and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the twentieth century travel by air was a luxury available only to the wealthy, and accordingly the airlines – Pan Am, BOAC, TWA, BEA and many others – offered premium services that connected far-flung parts of the world with con trails of glamour. This book looks back at the golden age, from the 1920s to the 1970s, when well-appointed airliners whisked the rich and famous around the world on holiday and on business. It evokes the chink of champagne glasses, the aroma of expensive cigars and the roar of early jet engines: the experience of air travel before package holidays and budget airlines changed flying forever. The various types of aircraft, the routes and the airports, as well as the changes undergone by the industry, are all explored here and illustrated by fascinating historical material.

The Golden Age of Travel

Author : Andrew Williamson
Publisher : Thomas Cook
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Travel written by Andrew Williamson and published by Thomas Cook. This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on material in the 150-year-old archive of Thomas Cook, this work is a voyage through the romantic era of travel, from the mid-Victorian period to the 1950s. There are 40 full-page poster reproductions, and travel memorabilia, from tickets to early tourists' photographs.

Luggage Labels

Author : David Craig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luggage Labels written by David Craig and published by . This book was released on 1988-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Craig has collected the most striking and exotic luggage labels from around the world. These miniature works of art were used for decades by first-class hotels to identify their guests' suitcases and trunks and then by the guests themselves to display their itineraries to the world. Here, reproduced in full color and actual size, are over 100 beautiful labels representing a wide variety of graphic styles dating back to the last century."--Jacket.

The Golden Age of Train Travel

Author : Steve Barry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747814937
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Train Travel written by Steve Barry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the century after 1865 all the largest railroad companies had flagship luxury trains, spectacularly appointed steamliners offering unrivaled standards of service and thoughtful amenities including ladies' perfume and carnations for gentlemen. These luxury trains transported well-heeled passengers in grand style across spectacular American landscapes in an atmosphere of privilege and elegance. Including the iconic Super Chief of the Sante Fe Railway and New York Central System's fabled 20th Century Limited, they became legends in their day and for decades after their last runs. This beautifully illustrated book allows readers to experience the exhilarating journeys, the exquisitely designed train cars and the vintage advertisements and posters that together made up the passenger's experience during this golden age of train travel – an age still remembered and celebrated today.

Travel Italia!

Author : Lorenzo Ottaviani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel Italia! written by Lorenzo Ottaviani and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel Italia is a must-have gift for anyone interested in Italy or in the art and design of the poster. Organised by region, it features Italy's foremost tourist destinations by drawing on an unparalleled collection of over 150 vintage posters and paintings from 1920 through 1960 commissioned by the Italian National Tourism Agency. Each vibrantly coloured, hand-rendered poster design features a particular destination, ranging from the main art cities (such as Florence and Bologna) to lesser known alpine jewels (such as Cadore and Dobbiaco). Commissions for poster art creation were given to well-known artists of the time, such as Mario Puppo, A.M. Cassandre, and Mario Borgoni, among others, and many of their dazzling works are featured in these pages.

Vintage Egypt

Author : Alain Blottiere
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Vintage Egypt written by Alain Blottiere and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As wealthy tourists descended upon Egypt in the early-twentieth-century, a well-heeled jet set emerged in Cairo and Alexandria. Period photographs celebrate the glamour: a Bugatti at the foot of the pyramids, high tea served in jasmine-draped gardens. . .

Canadian Pacific

Author : Barry Lane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780864928788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Pacific written by Barry Lane and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Canadian Pacific is one of the greatest stories in the world. Straddling the continent for more than a century and globe for more than fifty years, Canadian Pacific is inextricably linked with the history of Canada itself. In 1885, the company completed the construction of two thousand miles of railway system and linking the Atlantic to the Pacific. It then established fleets of vessels on both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, laying the foundation for a transportation route that allowed members of the British Empire to travel around the world. To enhance the travel experience, the company also constructed great castle-like hotels, including the Algonquin in St. Andrews, the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, and the Banff Springs Hotel in the Rockies, which themselves became landmarks. In this sumptuously illustrated history of a company whose story is integral to the Golden Age of Travel, Barry Lane recounts the history of Canadian Pacific, from the construction of the transcontinental railway to the development of the hotels and the building of the shipping line that linked Canada to the rest of the world."--From publisher.

En Route

Author : Lynn Johnson
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book En Route written by Lynn Johnson and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airline luggage labels from the 20s through the early 50s.

On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel

Author : Andrew Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781649031129
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel written by Andrew Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorfully illustrated celebration of the classic era of cruising on the Nile, new in paperback Since Antony and Cleopatra honeymooned on the Nile on a gilded barge, visitors to Egypt have taken to the river as the best way to experience the country's wonders. Early travelers took a dahabiya, an elegant triangular-sailed houseboat, and leisurely meandered from riverside site to site, for three months or more. Then from the late nineteenth century, Thomas Cook of Leicester, England, revolutionized the journey with a fleet of specially built paddle steamers. For the next sixty years these 'floating palaces,' with their private cabins, and dining, smoking, and viewing salons, red-uniformed dragoman guides, and organized donkey excursions, carried the aristocratic, moneyed, and adventurous of international society of the time. Using period photography, and colorful vintage posters and advertising material, this book tells the story of the people, the places, and the boats, from pioneering Nile travelers like Amelia Edwards and Lucie Duff Gordon, through to famed later passengers, such as Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and, of course, Agatha Christie, whose staging of a death on the Nile only added to the allure.

Burton Holmes Travelogues

Author : Burton Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Burton Holmes Travelogues written by Burton Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Luggage Labels and the Golden Age of Travel

Author : Harold Darling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962113116
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Luggage Labels and the Golden Age of Travel written by Harold Darling and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holidays and High Society

Author : Lucinda Gosling in association with Mary Evans Picture Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750990080
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Holidays and High Society written by Lucinda Gosling in association with Mary Evans Picture Library and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuous visual feast of society holidaying when foreign travel was the preserve of only the elite

Grand Hotels of Egypt

Author : Andrew Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774167195
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Grand Hotels of Egypt written by Andrew Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian palaces on the Nile that made Egypt the exotic alternative to wintering on the Riviera, the hotels of Alexandria, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan were always about far more than just bed and board. As bridgeheads for African exploration, neutral territories for conducting diplomacy, headquarters for armies, providers of home comforts for writers, painters, scholars, and archaeologists in the field, and social hubs for an international elite, more of importance happened in Egypt's hotels than in any other setting. It was through the hotels that visitors from the west--the earliest adventurers, then the travelers and, finally, the tourists--experienced the Orient. This book tells the stories of Egypt's historic hotels (including the Cecil, Shepheard's, the Mena House, Gezira Palace, Semiramis, Winter Palace, and Cataract) and some of the people who stayed in them, from Amelia Edwards, Lucie Duff Gordon and Florence Nightingale to Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, and TE Lawrence.

Wings Over the World

Author : Tom Quinn
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings Over the World written by Tom Quinn and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays air travel is as routine as catching a bus. But before the war, it was truly extraordinary. A giant Handley-Page biplane bound for Paris, bouncing along Croydon Aerodrome's grass runway, meant seat belts were primarily needed before take-off. Africa by Empire flying boat was a five-day aerial voyage via lakes that had to be cleared of hippos before touchdown. On a wartime Boeing flying boat crossing the Atlantic, the navigator plotted his course by the stars. Now, historian Tom Quinn records the remarkable reminiscences of British pilots, navigators, stewardesses, and station commanders. Abundantly illustrated with period posters, photos, and memorabilia, this is stirring social history from the edge of living memory.

A Golden Age

Author : Tahmima Anam
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061478741
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book A Golden Age written by Tahmima Anam and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As she plans a party for her son and daughter, Rehana Haque's life will be transformed forever in a story of one family caught in the middle of the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence, as they face changes and decisions that will have a profound impact on their lives forever.

Plus Belles Bibliotheques Du Monde

Author : Georg Ruppelt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836573924
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Plus Belles Bibliotheques Du Monde written by Georg Ruppelt and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries around the world to celebrate their architectural and historical wonder. From medieval to 19th-century institutions, private to monastic collections, this is a cultural-historical pilgrimage to the heart of our halls of learning and the stories they tell.

Scraps of Wool

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783524235
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Scraps of Wool written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scraps of Wool is a celebration of travel writing, bringing together in a single volume passages that have enthralled generations of readers, encouraged them to dream of exploration and set off on journeys of their own. Compiled by Bill Colegrave, its excerpts have been selected by today's travel writers and journalists, who have revealed the books that influenced them: Dervla Murphy, Tony Wheeler, Rory MacLean, Pico Iyer, Jan Morris, Colin Thubron, Artemis Cooper, Sara Wheeler, Alexander Frater and many more. Each of these scraps is a document of the writer's passion for place - thick equatorial jungle, the soft ergs of the Sahara, Patagonian steppe - and each story, each memory will transport you to a different corner of the globe, and maybe even inspire you to plan your own great adventure.