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Vacation tourists and notes of travel in 1860
by Galton, Francis, editor
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Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., London, 1861. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 483, [1], 23, [1] ads; bottom of spine slightly cracked else very good and sound in orig. pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and the originator of eugenic studies, whose seminal work, Finger Prints (London, 1892), led to the adoption of a entirely new system of criminal identification, was interested in tourism and vacations. His earlier work, The Art of Travel; or, Shifts and Contrivances in Wild Countries (1859) dealt with how to travel efficiently and safely, went through at least five editions over the next twenty years. In the present book, Galton edits 13 travel accounts including "The Allelein-Horn," by Leslie Stephen (Virginia Woolf's father), his own "Visit to North Spain," and H. F. Tozer's account of his visit to Norway. Several others deal with mountaineering, Naples and Gibraltar, Croatia and Hungary, and Peru. In his Preface Galton hopes that this book becomes a series of annual volumes: in fact, two others were published in subsequent years.
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- Title
- Vacation tourists and notes of travel in 1860
- Author
- Galton, Francis, editor
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co., London
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1861
- Keywords
- Vacations , , ,
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