Murray's Handbooks for Travellers

Cover of Handbook for Travellers in Turkey, 1871
Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century

Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836.[1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa. According to scholar James Buzard, the Murray style "exemplified the exhaustive rational planning that was as much an ideal of the emerging tourist industry as it was of British commercial and industrial organization generally."[2] The guidebooks became popular enough to appear in works of fiction such as Charles Lever's Dodd Family Abroad.[3] After 1915 the series continued as the Blue Guides.

List of Murray's Handbooks by date of publication

1830s

1840s

1850s

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

1900s

1910s

List of Murray's Handbooks by geographic coverage

Algeria

Belgium

Egypt

France

Germany

Great Britain

England

East Midlands region
East of England region
London region
North West England region
South East England region
South West England region
West Midlands region
Yorkshire and the Humber region

Scotland

Wales

Greece

India

Ireland

Italy

Japan

Russia

Scandinavia

Spain

Switzerland

Syria

Turkey

References

  1. Rudy Koshar (July 1998). "'What Ought to Be Seen': Tourists' Guidebooks and National Identities in Modern Germany and Europe". Journal of Contemporary History 33.
  2. James Buzard (Autumn 1991). "The Uses of Romanticism: Byron and the Victorian Continental Tour". Victorian Studies 35.
  3. James Buzard (January 1993). "A Continent of Pictures: Reflections on the "Europe" of Nineteenth-Century Tourists". PMLA 108.
  4. Stevan K. Pavlowitch (June 1962). "Early Nineteenth-Century Serbia in the Eyes of British Travelers". Slavic Review 21.
  5. E. W. Gilbert (1945). "Richard Ford and His 'Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain'". Geographical Journal 106.
  6. J.R. Hale (2005), England and the Italian Renaissance (4th ed.), Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., ISBN 9780631233640, Francis Palgrave ... author of the first edition of Murray's Handbook for Travellers in North Italy
  7. Peter H. Hansen (1995). "Albert Smith, the Alpine Club, and the Invention of Mountaineering in Mid-Victorian Britain". Journal of British Studies 34. JSTOR 175982.

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