World of Baedeker
Kai Frederik Lorentzen
lorentzen at hotmail.de
Wed Jul 18 05:35:45 CDT 2012
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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