Bradshaw's descriptive railway hand-book
Bradshaw, George, 1801-18532014
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The original tourist guide to rail travel, produced in 1863. An enlarged facsimile. The guide inspired and featured heavily in Michael Portillo's recent BBC series }Great British Railway Journeys{. An enlarged facsimile edition of Bradshaw's descriptive railway handbook of Great Britain and Ireland of 1861.Bradshaw's original tourist guide to rail travel is the star of the BBC's television series `Great British Railway Journeys' as used by Michael Portillo.The original Bradshaws book was produced in 1861, at the time that the railways became essential for tourism as well as infrastructure. This new larger format facsimile edition gives you the chance to explore what is now common through the eyes of a nation for whom rail travel was still a novelty of the age, and provides a fascinating view of railway travel in the nineteenth century.
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Author:
Bradshaw, George, 1801-1853, author
Edition:
1st edition.
Imprint:
Glasgow : Collins, 2014.
Collation:
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 26 cm
Variant title:
Cover title: Bradshaw's handbook 1861Spine title: Bradshaw's handbook
Notes:
"This facsimile edition is sourced from the National Library of Scotland's original copy of Bradshaw's descriptive railway hand-book of Great Britain and Ireland. London: W.J. Adams, 1861.""As featured in the TV series Great British Railway Journeys"--Cover.Formerly CIP. UkIncludes index.
ISBN:
9780007591893 (hbk)9780007941957
Dewey class:
914.1
Language:
English
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BRN:
2020743
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