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Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers

Series of travel guide books

Summary

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."

References

Jeffrey Steinbrink. (1983). "Why the Innocents Went Abroad: Mark Twain and American Tourism in the Late Nineteenth Century". American Literary Realism, 1870-1910.
(November 13, 1865). "Handbook for Travellers and Europe and the East". New York Times.
William Dean Howells. (March 1867). "Reviews and Literary Notices: Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East. Fifth Year". [[Atlantic Monthly]].
Martin R. Kalfatovic. (2004). "Guides and Handbooks". [[Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

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