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Publisher. Gay Guide UG. The Spartacus International Gay Guide is an international gay travel application and formerly an annually-published guide. [ 1] It was founded by John D. Stamford in 1970 as a printed guide, before being bought by Bruno Gmünder in 1987 following investigations into Stamford's tax violations and promotion of paedophilia.
1936–1966. The Negro Motorist Green Book (also, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or Green-Book) was a guidebook for African American roadtrippers. It was founded by Victor Hugo Green, an African American, New York City postal worker who published it annually from 1936 to 1966. This was during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often ...
Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. [ 1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa. According to scholar James Buzard, the Murray style "exemplified the exhaustive ...
Victor Hugo Green (November 9, 1892 – October 16, 1960) was an American postal employee and travel writer from Harlem, New York City, [1] best known for developing and writing what became known as The Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans in the United States.
Pages. 132 pages. ISBN. 0986929786. The Gay Travel Guide For Tops And Bottoms is a 2011 international gay travel guide by Drew Blancs. [1] The book was published on June 15, 2011, through Icon Empire Press. [2] The author, Drew Blancs, spent 5 years traveling and writing the book. [3] Blancs was a blogger from Los Angeles who had never written ...
A c. 1760 painting of James Grant, John Mytton, Thomas Robinson and Thomas Wynne on the Grand Tour by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member ...
Meyers Reisebücher. Michelin Guide. The Milepost. Mirabilia Urbis Romae. Mogg's travel guides. Molvanîa. Moon Publications. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers.
A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [44] An early example is Thomas West's guide to the English Lake District, published in 1778. [45] Thomas West, an English priest, popularized the idea of walking for pleasure in his guide to the Lake District of 1778. In the ...