Karl Friedrich was now operating on two fronts. He continued to produce city and regional guides from Malente and with the publication of his 1954 Berlin guide in German, English and French, the Baedeker brand had been well and truly re-established. Florian, his only son, was by his side and his cousin Hans, the son of his uncle Dietrich, was engaged in producing the motoring guides from Stuttgart. Dietrich's other son Otto also helped run the firm until 1971 when he left to join another publishing house. New English titles during this time were 1927's Tyrol and the Dolomites, 1931's The Riviera (including South Eastern France and Corsica), an edition of Germany for the 1936 Olympic Games, and 1939's Madeira, Canary Islands, Azores, Western Morocco.

Egypt edited by K. Baedeker, Part First: Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the Peninsula of Sinai, Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1895In German only: Dalmatia, Western Yugoslavia, Albania viz. Dalmatien und die Adria, Westliches Südslawien, Istrien, Budapest, Albanien, Korfu , Karl Baedeker, Leipzig, 1929.

In an age before political correctness, it was possible to be really very rude indeed about foreigners. It is not just the Spanish who are liable to run off with your change. In Italy, according to my grand-father’s 1912 guide, extortion is the national hobby and begging the national plague. Customs officials unfailingly pilfer your luggage and the cab-drivers, boatmen and porters are insolent and rapacious to ‘an almost incredible pitch’. This section contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. ( April 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Flight attendant reveals the WILDEST stunts passengers pull to try and get upgraded to first class - as she lifts the lid on how plane staff are really trained to deal with them The Great Depression put paid to any hopes of an early recovery in its fortunes. The arrival of Nazism made things even worse for anything connected with tourism. For the Baedeker publishing house it culminated in the destruction of their headquarters in Leipzig, with total loss of the firm's archives, in the early hours of December 4, 1943 when Britain's Royal Air Force bombarded the city. See also Baedeker Blitz for Baedeker Raids.

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Southern Italy and Sicily, with excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis and Corfu (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1908 Switzerland, and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol (17thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1897, OCLC 06105005 .

Starke’s book languished as a little-used guide for over a decade, primarily because Europe was still embroiled in the Napoleonic Wars and worryingly short of congenial hotels. Things changed in 1815 when the Congress of Vienna ushered in a protracted period of peace, and European ladies and gentlemen of means, inspired by the poetic prose of writers like Byron, expressed an increasing desire to travel abroad.

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The Eastern Alps, Including the Bavarian Highlands, the Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Ithria (5thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1883, OCLC 01678874 Under Fritz Baedeker (1844−1925) the company grew rapidly. In 1870, the Baedeker bookselling business was sold. In 1872, he moved the company's headquarters from Koblenz to Leipzig, a major move forward, as most of the reputable major German publishing houses were located there. Karl Baedeker II (1837−1911) continued the work started by his brother Ernst. In addition to the ongoing revision of existing guides, he published 14 new guides: four in German, seven in English and three in French. [2] viz.

Three years of not receiving one and you're OFF the mailing list! Etiquette expert William Hanson reveals the do's and don'ts of sending Christmas cards Wagner & Debes made a very important contribution to the guidebooks, providing them not only with the best maps in the world, many in color, but also with superb ground plans of palaces, churches, gardens, museums and castles, and with some extraordinary panoramas of Alpine ranges and other such two-star vistas." Map of Switzerland, published in a 1913 Baedeker travel guide Part 2 (Upper Egypt, with Nubia, as far as the Second Cataract and the Western Oases) at the Internet Archive

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The Mediterranean: Seaports and Searoutes, with Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the coasts of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Leipzig: Baedeker. 1911. + index Northern Italy: including Leghorn, Florence, Ravenna and Routes through France, Switzerland and Austria (14thed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913 + index London and its environs, including excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, etc., Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1878, OCLC 02962434 . A female traveller is a delicate creature who cannot possibly manage certain activities. When it comes to climbing Mount Vesuvius, for example, a man may do it on foot, but as this is too ‘fatiguing’ for ladies, they are advised to take the train. I can say with great satisfaction that I managed it perfectly well as a 13-year-old schoolgirl. Where Britons want to spend their winter abroad revealed by Tripadvisor - and it's Dubai that takes the top spot, with Tenerife second and New York beating Paris