num_pages: 192
description: The days of adventurous and meaningful travel are not over. A Grand Tour has always been an established British tradition for young men of high social position; up to the end of the eighteenth century it meant a round of the courts, galleries and great houses of Holland, Germany, Italy and France, usually with a travelling tutor or 'bear-leader', and lasting a year of two. And the tour continues today; it has much extended eastward, is far less formal and is available to anyone with a sense of adventure, but the rewards it brings, in satisfaction and sense of achievement, are similar.
language: English
title: The new 'grand tour': travelling today through Europe, Asia Minor, India and Nepal
publisher: David & Charles