the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Karl Baedeker : [guidebook on Florence]

'Bennett needed a guide when he travelled abroad - and his Florentine Journal is touchingly full of his delightful efforts to see and understand all, through his Baedeker...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

Karl Baedeker : Egypt

'I lunched with him ["a high dignitary of the Anglican Church"] at Shepheard's; and , leaving him for half and hour, during which I rushed home and read all up in Baedeker, I drove him to old Cairo, showing him the Nilometer, the place where Moses mewled in the bullrushes (there are none there now) and the oldest Coptic Church, Mari Girgis, where the Holy family are supposed to have rested on their way through Egypt.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs      

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