Book Giveaway – Wanderlust: A Social History Of Travel
Written on February 17, 2009
It all started when I began wondering where passports came from. I pitched every magazine editor I knew on a story about the history of passports, but no one, and I mean no one was interested.
Fine, I thought. I’ll broaden the concept and make it into a book.
The history of passports eventually became a chapter in my book Wanderlust: A Social History of Travel. The book also answers such burning questions as “Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches?” (Answer: Because the planes’ violent vibrations often shook loose the passenger seats, which were bolted to the floor.)
Back in the early days, just about all travellers “travelled like locals” – from the bureaucrat in ancient China who took 13 years to return from a government mission (partly because he married a local woman and started a family en route) to the medieval pilgrims who sought shelter in monasteries along the way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
So how do you enter to win a copy of the book?
Find out @ Facing the Street
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Book Giveaway – Wanderlust: A Social History Of Travel
It all started when I began wondering where passports came from. I pitched every magazine editor I knew on a story about the history of passports, but no one, and I mean no one was interested.
Fine, I thought. I’ll broaden the concept and make it into a book.
The history of passports eventually became a chapter in my book Wanderlust: A Social History of Travel. The book also answers such burning questions as “Why did 1930s stewardesses carry wrenches?” (Answer: Because the planes’ violent vibrations often shook loose the passenger seats, which were bolted to the floor.)
Back in the early days, just about all travellers “travelled like locals” – from the bureaucrat in ancient China who took 13 years to return from a government mission (partly because he married a local woman and started a family en route) to the medieval pilgrims who sought shelter in monasteries along the way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
So how do you enter to win a copy of the book?
Find out @ Facing the Street
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