
Guide books led the traveller in the 19th century, giving the latest information on travelling conditions as well as instructing on the places to visit. Murray & Baedekers guides, as well as covering all parts of Europe, featured Peking, Canada, the United States, Japan & New Zeal&. This book contains unusual information taken from Alan Sillitoe's collection of guides. He becomes an imagined 19th-century tourist & visits Switzerland where he explains the dangers & delights of Alpine climbing, & Germany & the Rhine with its many gaming houses. Sillitoe dallies throughout Italy, contesting with the heat, the insects & the beggars, & is advised against cock & bull fighting in Spain where he has to fend for himself. He bemoans the condition of Hungarian inns, relates the ceaseless bartering needed in Turkey to achieve anything & the sights of the Holy Land & Russia.