Nearly half a millenia before lonely planet, frommers, & foder’s travel guides a man seeking salvation for his soul and a skilled Dutch artist kicked off the travel guide business.
They created a 15th-century bestseller that would give Europeans their first realistic views of prominent cities around the eastern Mediterranean while also encouraging and helping others to take the same trip.
RareMaps.com Sources
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1486 Jerusalem and the Holy Land - www.raremaps.com/gallery/deta...
1486 Peregrinationes, in German: Reise ins Heilige Land. - www.raremaps.com/gallery/deta...
Book Sources
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Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book by Elizabeth Ross
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Негізгі бет This 500 year old book was the first Travel Guide (plus the first printed map of Jerusalem)
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