1997
First Published
3.78
Average Rating
270
Number of Pages
This work constructs a piece of social history to convey what it was like to travel the world in the 100 years leading up to World War I. By becoming an imaginary 19th-century armchair tourist, the author discovers such dangers as alpine climbing in Switzerland and the gaming houses of Germany.
Avg Rating
3.78
Number of Ratings
18
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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Author
Alan Sillitoe
Author · 30 books
Alan Sillitoe was an English writer, one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s (although he, in common with most of the other writers to whom the label was applied, had never welcomed it). For more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan\_Sil...
