Cook's Travellers Handbooks

Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook, produced his first handbook to England the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond. Compared with other guides such as Murray's, Cook's aimed at "a broader and less sophisticated middle-class audience."[1] The books served to advertise Cook's larger business of organizing travel tours.[1] The series continues today as Traveller Guides issued by Thomas Cook Publishing of Peterborough, England.[2]

Cook's Handbook to Norway and Denmark, 1907

List of Cook's travel guides by geographic coverage

Belgium

• Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine, London: T. Cook & Son, 1874
  • Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine, London: T. Cook & Son, 1877
  • 1880 ed.
  • Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, the Rhine and Black Forest, London: T. Cook & Son, 1901
• Traveller's Handbook for Belgium and the Ardennes, London: T. Cook & Son, 1911
  • Traveller's Handbook for Belgium and the Ardennes, London: T. Cook & Son, 1921

China

• Cook's Handbook for Tourists to Peking, Tientsin, Shan-Hai-Kwan, Mukden, Dalny, Port Arthur, and Seoul, London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1910

France

• Cook's Guide to Paris[3]
• Cook's Handbook to the Health Resorts of the South of France, London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1881
  • 1900 ed.
  • 1905 ed.
• Cook's Handbook for Normandy and Brittany, London: T. Cook & Son, 1883
  • Thomas Cook Ltd. (1898), Cook's handbook for Normandy and Brittany .., London: T. Cook & Son, OCLC 8376896, OL 6905295M

Germany

• Cook's Tourist's Handbook for the Black Forest, London: T. Cook & Son, 1876
• Cook's Tourist's Handbook for the Rhine (South-Western Germany) and the Black Forest, London: T. Cook & Son, 1906

Great Britain

• Handbook of the Trip to Liverpool. Leicester: T. Cook. 1845.[4][5]
  • 1998 reprint
• Cook's Scottish Tourist Practical Directory, London: Thomas Cook, 1866[6]
• Cook's Handbook for London, London: Thos. Cook & Son, 1878
  • Cook's Handbook for London, London: T. Cook & Son, 1881
  • 1905 ed.
  • 1911 ed.
  • 1921 ed.

India

• India, Burma, Ceylon and South Africa, London: T. Cook & Son, 1904

Italy

• Cook's Handbook to Florence, London: T. Cook & Son, 1874
  • 1875 ed.
  • 1901 ed.
• Cook's Handbook to Venice, London: T. Cook & Son, 1874
  • 1901 ed.
• Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Southern Italy, London: T. Cook & Son, 1875
  • 1884 ed.
  • Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Southern Italy, Rome and Sicily., London: Thos. Cook & son., 1905
• Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Northern Italy, London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1875
  • Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Northern Italy, London: T. Cook & Son, 1881
• Cook's Handbook to Naples and Environs, London: T. Cook & Son, 1922, OCLC 11961945, OL 23291094M

Netherlands

• Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine, London: T. Cook & Son, 1874
  • Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine, London: T. Cook & Son, 1877
  • 1880 ed.

New Zealand

• New Zealand as a Tourist and Health Resort, Auckland: T. Cook & Son, 1902, OCLC 18158487, OL 7093583M
  • 1903 ed.

North Africa

• Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Egypt, London: T. Cook & Son, 1876
• E.A. Wallis Budge (1901). The Nile (7th ed.) – via Open Library. + index
  • 1905 ed.
• Cook's Practical Guide to Algiers, Algeria and Tunisia, London: T. Cook & Son, 1904
  • Cook's Practical Guide to Algeria and Tunisia, London: T. Cook & Son, 1908
• Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1906), Cook's Handbook for Egypt and the Sudan (2nd ed.), London: T. Cook & Son, OCLC 7434398, OL 23291093M + Index[7]
  • 1911 ed.
  • 1921 ed.

Palestine and Syria

• Cook's Tourists' Handbook to Palestine and Syria 1876 edition

Scandinavia

• Cook's Handbook to Scandinavia[3]
• Sweden[8]
• Thomas Cook & Son (1907), Cook's Handbook to Norway and Denmark, with Iceland and Spitsbergen, London
  • Thomas Cook & Son (1911), Cook's Handbook to Norway and Denmark, with Iceland and Spitsbergen, London + Index
  • Thomas Cook Ltd. (1922), Traveller's Handbook for Norway and Denmark, London

Spain

• Albert F. Calvert (1912), Traveller's Handbook for Spain, London: Thomas Cook & Son

Switzerland

• Cook's Tourist's Handbook to Switzerland, London: T. Cook & Son, 1874
  • Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Switzerland, London: T. Cook & Son, 1876, OCLC 28700602, OL 6940520M
  • 1879 ed.
  • 1905 ed.
  • 1922 ed.

Syria

• Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Palestine and Syria, London: T. Cook & Son, 1876 + Index
  • J.E. Hanauer; E.G. Masterman (1907), Cook's Handbook for Palestine and Syria, London: Thos. Cook & Son + Index

See also

• Thomas Cook European Timetable

References

1. Rudy Koshar (July 1998). "'What Ought to Be Seen': Tourists' Guidebooks and National Identities in Modern Germany and Europe". Journal of Contemporary History. 33 (3): 323–340. JSTOR 261119.
2. "Traveller Guides". Peterborough, England: Thomas Cook Publishing/Thomas Cook Tour Operations Ltd. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
3. "Guide Books (advertisement)", Cook's Tourist's Handbook for the Rhine, 1906
4. W. Fraser Rae (1891), The Business of Travel: a Fifty Years' Record of Progress, London: T. Cook and Son, OL 14588832M, Banquet to commemorate the fiftieth year of the business of Thomas Cook & Son, at the Hôtel Métropole, July 22nd, 1891
5. Jack Simmons (1984). "Railways, Hotels, and Tourism in Great Britain 1839-1914". Journal of Contemporary History. 19 (2): 201–222. doi:10.1177/002200948401900203. JSTOR 260593.
6. Alexander H. Japp (1892), "Thomas Cook & Son", Successful Business-Men, London: J.S. Virtue & Co.
7. "Book Department", Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, July 1907
8. "Cook's Travellers' Handbooks (advertisement)", Cook's Handbook to Naples, 1922

External links

• WorldCat. Thomas Cook Touring Handbooks