George Bradshaw

Gebundenes Buch

Bradshaw's Handbook

Beschreibung

Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s - Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile.

Autor

George Bradshaw (1801-1853) was an English cartographer, printer and publisher. He is most famous for developing a series of railway timetables and guides. The books became synonymous with its publisher so that, for Victorians and Edwardians alike, a railway timetable was 'a Bradshaw'. After his death Punch magazine said of Bradshaw's labours: 'seldom has the gigantic intellect of man been employed upon a work of greater utility.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 188mm x 144mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781908402028
• ISBN-10: 1908402024
• Artikelnr.: 34565454