Southern Germany, Including Wurtemberg And Bavaria; Handbook For Travellers

Karl Baedeker

ISBN 10: 935430902X / ISBN 13: 9789354309021

Published by Alpha Editions, 2020

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Southern Germany, Including Wurtemberg And Bavaria; Handbook For Travellers | Karl Baedeker | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2020 | Alpha Editions | EAN 9789354309021 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Southern Germany, Including Wurtemberg And Bavaria; Handbook For Travellers
• Publisher: Alpha Editions
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 935430902X
• ISBN 13: 9789354309021
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 21D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 584 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Explore nineteenth-century southern Germany with the authoritative handbook for travellers. A crisp companion from the age of steam. Maps, schedules, and practical detail. Karl Baedeker's Southern Germany, Including Wurtemberg and Bavaria stands as a classic nineteenth century travel guide and an indispensable european travel handbook: a vintage travel reference for anyone curious about bavaria and wurtemberg tours, historical germany travel, and the rhythms of 1800s Germany exploration. Concise town-by-town descriptions sit alongside suggested rail and road itineraries, reliable distances and route notes devised for travellers and tourists of the era. Local histories and compact gazetteer entries give context to churches, castles and market towns; the prose stays economical, instructive and often wry. It balances old Europe travel planning with the sensibility of classic travel literature, offering both practical bearings and glimpses of social life between the lines. Historically significant, this volume exemplifies the Baedeker guidebook series' influence on how travel was organised and understood across nineteenth-century Europe, and it remains a primary reference for collectors and scholars of classic travel literature. Casual readers can enjoy its vivid snapshots of landscape and town life; classic-literature collectors and devotees of collectors' travel books will prize it for context and authenticity. Indeed, antique-book collectors will value its authentic voice; travel historians rely on Baedeker's practical exactness when tracing how railways and roads reshaped Bavarian and Wurtemberg tours. The handbook is a working document for anyone interested in historical Germany travel or staging accurate period journeys and studies. For librarians, historians and those reconstructing routes of 1800s Germany exploration, the handbook supplies essential contemporary detail on transport and accommodation patterns. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.