1900-02 The Traveller For Whom the World is a Playground

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Very Scarce

A very scarce set, only held at four institutions; the University of Oxford, National Library of Australia, the Simon Fraser University Library, and the Newberry Library. 

In six volumes.

Volume I contains Numbers I - XIII, dating from the 21st July to 13th October 1900. 

Volume II contains Numbers XIV - XXVI, dating from the 20th October 1900 to 12th January 1901. 

Volume III contains Numbers XXVII - XXXIX, dating from the 19th January to 13th April 1901. 

Volume IV contains Numbers XL - LII, dating from the 20th April to 13th July 1901.

Volume V contains Numbers LIII - LXV, dating from the 20th July to 12th October 1901.

Volume VI contains Numbers LXVI - LXXVIII, dating from the 19th October 1901 to 11th January 1902. 

Volume VI includes two supplements bound to the rear, 'Winters in the Austrian Alpine Districts', dated the 30th November 1901, and 'Genoa and the Italian Rivieras', dated the 28th December 1901. 

Lavishly illustrated throughout with full-paged and in-text photographs and illustrations. 

A brilliant travel magazine from the late Victorian early Edwardian era.

Providing a lovely insight into travel habits and preferences during this period, with notices on popular tourists destinations, and interesting articles on the world as it was at the beginning of the twentieth century.  

Including articles on: the Paris Exhibition, Norway in September, a driving tour of the south of England, a short stay in Brussels, in the land of Burns, baffling the German police, the spas of Tuscany, sea sickness, conducted tours in Italy, tobogganing at Davos, Yellowstone Park, winter in Norway, amusements at Monte Carlo, education across the world, hints for mountaineering beginners, places to honeymoon, passages to Jamaica, views of Shakespeare's Country, drinking the waters at Telese, fishing in Australia, tours through Algeria, the Covent Garden Opera House, the Naples Aquarium, winter in Palermo, tours through Palestine, and much more.

With various adverts throughout, including for 'Black's Guide Books', and hotels across the globe, as well as useful information on railways. 

Some articles tell stories of travellers, under the series title 'What Happened to Me', and others guide reader on 'What to Wear Abroad', others containing book reviews of published travel works. 

Perhaps of most interest in the extensive coverage of the 1900 Paris Exposition, present in Volume I. This was an important and lavish world's fair held in the city, visited by more than fifty million people. The exhibitions included many technological innovations, including the Grande Roue de Paris ferris wheel, the Rue de l'Avenir moving pavement, the first ever regular passenger trolleybus line, talking films, the matryoshka dolls, and the telegraphone.