Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers explained

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^[1] 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.^[2]

Further reading

• Book: Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East . New-York . Harper & Brothers . 1862 .
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    • v.2 (Germany, Austria, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Greece) + Index
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    • v.1 (Great Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium, and Holland) + Index
    • v.2 (Germany, Austria, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Greece)

External links

• HathiTrust. Book: Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East . American Travellers' Guides . 1862-

Notes and References

1. Why the Innocents Went Abroad: Mark Twain and American Tourism in the Late Nineteenth Century . Jeffrey Steinbrink . American Literary Realism, 1870-1910 . 16 . 2 . 278–286 . 1983 . 27746104 .
2. Web site: Guides and Handbooks . Nile Notes of a Howadji: American Travelers in Egypt . Martin R. Kalfatovic . 2004 . Washington DC . . August 24, 2013.