{"product_id":"the-grand-tour-by-sabine-arque-9783836585071","title":"The Grand Tour","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGlobal travel can be a wearying business: mass tourism, overcrowded planes, chaotic airports, heightened security, cookie-cutter hotel chains, well-worn tourist trails. Finding even a sliver of adventure can sometimes feel impossible. But take heart: for all of us with an unfulfilled spirit of wanderlust, \u003cem\u003eThe Grand Tour\u003c\/em\u003e evokes an era when travelling the world was a thrilling new possibility for those with the resources, time, imagination, and daring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis richly illustrated volume charts the travel heyday of 1869 to 1939. Bedecked with ephemera and precious turn-of-the-century photochromes, it follows six classic tours favoured by Western adventurers in the prewar era, including such famous traveller-writers as Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and Goethe. From the \u003cem\u003eGrand Tour of Europe\u003c\/em\u003e, a traditional rite of passage for young English aristocrats, to the \u003cem\u003eFar East\u003c\/em\u003e, barely touched by Western influence, to the famous \u003cem\u003eTrans-Siberian Railway\u003c\/em\u003e, we follow each journey through its itinerant stops and various modes of transport: trains, boats, cars, planes, horses, donkeys, and camels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith pages brimming with archival travel posters, guides, tickets, leaflets, brochures, menus, and luggage stickers, the book evokes all the romance and elegance, not to mention the sheer sense of novelty, that enthralled these golden-age passengers. Through decadent new cities, or wild, rugged terrains, this is your passport to a long-lost epoch of adventure and wide-eyed wonder at the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599449669868,"sku":"9783836585071","price":180.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8c1c408f31279b94321497b664dc4c10.jpg?v=1778022814","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-grand-tour-by-sabine-arque-9783836585071","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}