This 500 year old book was the first Travel Guide (plus the first printed map of Jerusalem)
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 - https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/83451
1486 Peregrinationes, in German: Reise ins Heilige Land. - https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/93335/peregrinationes-in-german-reise-ins-heilige-land-von-breydenbach-reuwich
Book Sources
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Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book by Elizabeth Ross
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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
---------------
1486 Jerusalem and the Holy Land - https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/83451
1486 Peregrinationes, in German: Reise ins Heilige Land. - https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/93335/peregrinationes-in-german-reise-ins-heilige-land-von-breydenbach-reuwich
Book Sources
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Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book by Elizabeth Ross
Social Media
-----------------------
Map Shop - http://thegeographygeek.com/
Instagram - http://instagram.com/thegeographygeek
Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/geographygeek
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