World of Baedeker

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

This is a fresh study on the Baedeker which seems to be well done. Under 
"Leseprobe" you can click on a sample. In the description of the book it 
says: The history of the Baedeker "is closely related to the age of 
enlightenment, the rise of the bourgeoisie, to the formation of steam 
ship lines and railways and to modern photography". Sounds rather 
relevant in terms of P.

http://www.campus.de/wissenschaft/geschichte/Kultur-+und+Alltagsgeschichte.40436.html/Die+Welt+des+Baedeker.99509.html?PTBUCH=LESEPROBE

"He was that sort of vagrant who exists, though unwillingly, entirely 
within the Baedeker world --- as much a feature of the topography as the 
other automata: waiters, porters, cabmen, clerks."
(/V/, chapter three, III)


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