Worth the detour : a history of the guidebook /
Parsons, Nicholas.
Stroud : Sutton Pub.,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The ancient world -- Late antiquity and the Middle Ages : the pilgrims' guides -- From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment : scholars, moralists and men of taste -- The bourgeous traveller and the beginnings of mass tourism -- From inventory to ideology : aspects of the modern guidebook -- Epilogue : mind-travelling and the survival of the guidebook.
Tourism
Travelers' writings
Travel
Travel, Ancient.