The Smell of the Continent
The British Discover Europe 1814-1914
Travel
Richard Mullen; James Munson
Macmillan 2009
Hardback 380 pages Illustrated 
0230741908 | 9780230741904 |  Product code: 84267  
Between the fall of Napoleon and the First World War, Britons ventured across the Channel en masse for the first time. These were not the aristocratic dilettantes of the 18th century Grand Tour, but solid burghers from London and Manchester. What did they make of the Continent, and its hotels, transport, lavatories, bedbugs and ... garlic? Drawing on letters, diaries, travel books and fiction, this witty and entertaining history offers a traveller's-eye view of the first age of mass tourism.
 
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