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Grand Days of Travel by Charles Owens Dust Jacket 1979 206 pages indexed.
The Grand Days of Travel by Charles Owens Dust Jacket 1979 206 pages indexed.
Grand Days of Travel is a fascinating and visually beautiful book about luxury travel in its heyday, the years between the two World Wars. The glamour of travel by ship, train, car and airplane recaptures some of the style and flavor, the ambience and the environment, of better-off travellers and those who served them on stations, quays and airports; in hotels and restaurants; on board ocean liners, trains and airplanes; in motor cars, rickshaws and taxi cabs.
The inter-war period (1409-1939) was the time when the art of travel was part of a conspicuously opulent way of life, rather than the modern practical consideration of the shortest line between two points. In the Twenties, travel - for the few - was an alluring mixture of the luxury and pampered security of the Ritz, with the still lingering excitement of pioneering new methods of transport to new pans of the world.
Over 150 illustrations in color and black and-white illuminate and complement the text.
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