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Series of travel guide books

Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East, 1862

Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers (est.1862) was a series of travel guide books published by Harper & Brothers of New York. Each annual edition contained information for tourists in Europe and parts of the Middle East. The "indefatigable" William Pembroke Fetridge wrote most of the guides from 1862 until at least 1885. In its day the Harper's Hand-Book competed with popular guides such as Baedeker, Bradshaw's, and Murray's. In 1867 critic William Dean Howells found Harper's Hand-Book "chatty and sociable." Readers included Lucy Baird, daughter of Spencer F. Baird.

References

  1. Jeffrey Steinbrink (1983). "Why the Innocents Went Abroad: Mark Twain and American Tourism in the Late Nineteenth Century". American Literary Realism, 1870-1910. 16 (2): 278–286. JSTOR 27746104.
  2. "Handbook for Travellers and Europe and the East", New York Times, November 13, 1865
  3. ^ William Dean Howells (March 1867), "Reviews and Literary Notices: Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East. Fifth Year", Atlantic Monthly, vol. 19, pp. 380–383, hdl:2027/chi.20670628
  4. Martin R. Kalfatovic (2004). "Guides and Handbooks". Nile Notes of a Howadji: American Travelers in Egypt. Washington DC: Smithsonian Libraries. Retrieved August 24, 2013.

Further reading

  • Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1862.
    • W. Pembroke Fetridge (1865), Harper's Hand-Book for Travelers in Europe and the East (4th ed.), New York: Harper & Brothers, hdl:2027/nyp.33433066588488 + Index
    • W. Pembroke Fetridge (1868), Harper's Hand-Book for Travelers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers, hdl:2027/nyp.33433066588470
    • W. Pembroke Fetridge (1869), Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • W. Pembroke Fetridge (1873), Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • W. Pembroke Fetridge (1874), Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East (13th ed.), New York: Harper & Brothers.
      • v.1 (Great Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium, and Holland)
      • v.2 (Germany, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Greece) + Index
      • v.3 (Switzerland, Tyrol, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Spain)
    • W. Pembroke Fetridge (1878), Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East (17th ed.), New York: Harper & Brothers.
      • v.2 (Germany, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Greece)
      • v.3 (Switzerland, Tyrol, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Spain)
    • W. Pembroke Fetridge (1881), Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East, New York: Harper & Brothers.
      • v.2 (Germany, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Greece) + index
    • W. Pembroke Fetridge (1883), Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East (22nd ed.), New York: Harper & Brothers.
      • v.3 (Switzerland, Tyrol, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and Spain)
    • W. Pembroke Fetridge (1884), Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East (23rd ed.), New York: Harper & Brothers.
      • v.2 (Germany, Austria, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Greece) + Index
      • v.3
    • W. Pembroke Fetridge (1885), Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East (24th ed.), New York: Harper & Brothers, OL 23302947M.
      • v.1 (Great Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium, and Holland) + Index
      • v.2 (Germany, Austria, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Greece)

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