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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 in 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." The books served to advertise Cook's larger business of organizing travel tours.{{cite journal |title='What Ought to Be Seen': Tourists' Guidebooks and National Identities in Modern Germany and Europe |author= Rudy Koshar |journal= Journal of Contemporary History |volume= 33 |issue= 3 |pages= 323–340 |date=July 1998 |jstor=261119 }} The series continues today as Traveller Guides issued by Thomas Cook Publishing of Peterborough, England.{{cite web |publisher=Thomas Cook Publishing/Thomas Cook Tour Operations Ltd. |location=Peterborough, England |url=http://www.thomascookpublishing.com/TravellerGuides |title=Traveller Guides |access-date=26 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131201400/http://www.thomascookpublishing.com/TravellerGuides |archive-date=31 January 2011 |url-status=dead }}

List of Cook's travel guides by geographic coverage

=Belgium=

  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine |url =http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000816241 |year=1874 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine |url =https://archive.org/stream/cookstouristsha08ltdgoog#page/n7/mode/2up |year=1877 }}
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=KlkDAAAAQAAJ 1880 ed.]
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, the Rhine and Black Forest |url =http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009779590 |year=1901 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Traveller's Handbook for Belgium and the Ardennes |url = http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009531156 |date = 1911 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Traveller's Handbook for Belgium and the Ardennes |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IDozAQAAMAAJ |date = 1921 }}

=China=

  • {{Citation |publisher = Thomas Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Handbook for Tourists to Peking, Tientsin, Shan-Hai-Kwan, Mukden, Dalny, Port Arthur, and Seoul |url = http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008729351 |date = 1910 }}

=France=

  • Cook's Guide to Paris{{Citation |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for the Rhine |chapter=Guide Books (advertisement) |chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=FRAbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA34 |year=1906 |last1=Ltd |first1=Thomas Cook }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Thomas Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Handbook to the Health Resorts of the South of France |url = https://archive.org/stream/cookshandbookto01ltdgoog#page/n7/mode/2up |date = 1881 }}
  • [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011595339 1900 ed.]
  • [https://archive.org/stream/cookshandbookto03ltdgoog#page/n9/mode/2up 1905 ed.]
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Handbook for Normandy and Brittany |url = https://archive.org/stream/cookshandbookfo01ltdgoog#page/n7/mode/2up |date = 1883 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's handbook for Normandy and Brittany .. |author = Thomas Cook Ltd. |date = 1898 |oclc = 8376896 |ol = 6905295M }}

=Germany=

  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for the Black Forest |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cmEDAAAAQAAJ |date = 1876 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for the Rhine (South-Western Germany) and the Black Forest |url =https://books.google.com/books?id=FRAbAAAAYAAJ |year=1906 }}

=Great Britain=

  • {{cite book |title=Handbook of the Trip to Liverpool |location=Leicester |publisher= T. Cook |year= 1845 }}{{Citation |publisher = T. Cook and Son |location = London |author = W. Fraser Rae | author-link = William Fraser Rae |title = The Business of Travel: a Fifty Years' Record of Progress |journal = Nature |date = 1891 |volume = 44 |issue = 1133 |page = 247 |doi = 10.1038/044247c0 |bibcode = 1891Natur..44..247. |hdl = 2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t8pc3j956 |s2cid = 3969901 |quote=Banquet to commemorate the fiftieth year of the business of Thomas Cook & Son, at the Hôtel Métropole, July 22nd, 1891 |ol = 14588832M |hdl-access = free }}{{cite journal |title=Railways, Hotels, and Tourism in Great Britain 1839-1914 |author= Jack Simmons |journal= Journal of Contemporary History |volume= 19 |issue= 2 |pages= 201–222 |year= 1984 |jstor= 260593 |doi= 10.1177/002200948401900203 |s2cid= 162240939 }}
  • [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51370807 1998 reprint]
  • {{Citation |publisher = Thomas Cook |location = London |title = Cook's Scottish Tourist Practical Directory |url = http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005879903 |date = 1866 }}{{Citation |publisher = J.S. Virtue & Co. |location = London |author = Alexander H. Japp |chapter-url =https://archive.org/stream/successfulbusine00japprich#page/46/mode/2up |chapter=Thomas Cook & Son |title = Successful Business-Men |date = 1892 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Thos. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Handbook for London |url = https://archive.org/stream/cookshandbookfo02ltdgoog#page/n8/mode/2up |date = 1878 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Handbook for London |url = https://archive.org/stream/cookshandbookfo00ltdgoog#page/n8/mode/2up |date = 1881 }}
  • [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008411935 1905 ed.]
  • [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008222252 1911 ed.]
  • [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007971638 1921 ed.]

=India=

  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = India, Burma, Ceylon and South Africa |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=TOADFBlOpA4C |date = 1904 }}

=Italy=

  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Handbook to Florence |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NBIIAAAAQAAJ |date = 1874 }}
  • [https://archive.org/stream/cookshandbooktof00thom#page/n7/mode/2up 1875 ed.]
  • [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009834370 1901 ed.]
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Handbook to Venice |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NRYIAAAAQAAJ |date = 1874 }}
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=HeAVAAAAYAAJ 1901 ed.]
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Southern Italy |url = http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011408268 |date = 1875 }}
  • [https://archive.org/details/cookstouristsha05ltdgoog 1884 ed.]
  • {{Citation |url = https://archive.org/stream/cookstouristshan025092mbp#page/n0/mode/2up |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Southern Italy, Rome and Sicily. |date = 1905 |publisher = Thos. Cook & son. |location= London }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Thomas Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Northern Italy |url = https://archive.org/stream/cookstouristsha12ltdgoog#page/n11/mode/2up |date = 1875 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Northern Italy |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qGsDAAAAQAAJ |date = 1881 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Handbook to Naples and Environs |date = 1922 |oclc = 11961945 |ol = 23291094M }}

=Netherlands=

  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine |url =https://archive.org/stream/cookstouristsha11ltdgoog#page/n7/mode/2up |year=1874 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine |url =https://archive.org/stream/cookstouristsha08ltdgoog#page/n7/mode/2up |year=1877 }}
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=KlkDAAAAQAAJ 1880 ed.]

=New Zealand=

  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = Auckland |title = New Zealand as a Tourist and Health Resort |date = 1902 |oclc = 18158487 |ol = 7093583M }}
  • [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009014047 1903 ed.]

=North Africa=

  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Egypt |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=d4cDAAAAQAAJ |date = 1876 }}
  • {{cite book |title=The Nile |edition=7th |url=https://archive.org/stream/ldpd_7229671_000#page/n7/mode/2up |via=Open Library |year=1901 |author=E.A. Wallis Budge |publisher=T. Cook & Son (Egypt) Ltd. |author-link=E.A. Wallis Budge }} + [https://archive.org/stream/ldpd_7229671_000#page/626/mode/2up index]
  • [https://archive.org/details/nilenotesfortrav00budgrich 1905 ed.]
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Practical Guide to Algiers, Algeria and Tunisia |url = https://archive.org/stream/cookspracticalg00ltdgoog#page/n14/mode/2up |date = 1904 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Practical Guide to Algeria and Tunisia |url = http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007695008 |date = 1908 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Handbook for Egypt and the Sudan |author = Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge |edition = 2nd |date = 1906 |oclc = 7434398 |ol = 23291093M }} + [https://archive.org/stream/cookshandbookfor00budg#page/860/mode/2up Index]{{citation |title=Book Department |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fqgzAAAAYAAJ |work=Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia |date=July 1907 }}
  • [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002139823 1911 ed.]
  • [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000349886 1921 ed.]

=Palestine and Syria=

  • Cook's Tourists' Handbook to Palestine and Syria [https://archive.org/stream/cookstouristsha13ltdgoog#page/n7/mode/2up 1876 edition]

=Scandinavia=

  • Cook's Handbook to Scandinavia
  • Sweden{{Citation |title = Cook's Handbook to Naples |chapter=Cook's Travellers' Handbooks (advertisement) |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/cookshandbookton00thom#page/n7/mode/1up |date = 1922 }}
  • {{Citation |author = Thomas Cook & Son |date = 1907 |location = London |title = Cook's Handbook to Norway and Denmark, with Iceland and Spitsbergen }}
  • {{Citation |author = Thomas Cook & Son |date = 1911 |location = London |title = Cook's Handbook to Norway and Denmark, with Iceland and Spitsbergen |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009779434 }} + [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x001950196?urlappend=%3Bseq=303 Index]
  • {{Citation |author = Thomas Cook Ltd. |date = 1922 |location = London |title = Traveller's Handbook for Norway and Denmark }}

=Spain=

  • {{Citation |publisher = Thomas Cook & Son |date = 1912 |location = London |title = Traveller's Handbook for Spain |author= Albert F. Calvert|url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001236128 }}

=Switzerland=

  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook to Switzerland |url = https://archive.org/stream/cookstouristsha09ltdgoog#page/n6/mode/2up|date = 1874 }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Switzerland |date = 1876 |oclc = 28700602 |ol = 6940520M }}
  • [https://archive.org/stream/cookstouristsha00ltdgoog#page/n10/mode/2up 1879 ed.]
  • [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011590771 1905 ed.]
  • [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010824874 1922 ed.]

=Syria=

  • {{Citation |publisher = T. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Palestine and Syria |url = https://archive.org/stream/cookstouristsha13ltdgoog#page/n7/mode/2up |date = 1876 }} + [https://archive.org/stream/cookstouristsha13ltdgoog#page/n493/mode/2up Index]
  • {{Citation |publisher = Thos. Cook & Son |location = London |title = Cook's Handbook for Palestine and Syria |url = https://archive.org/stream/cookshandbookfo03ltdgoog#page/n5/mode/2up |date = 1907 |author1=J.E. Hanauer |author2=E.G. Masterman }} + [https://archive.org/stream/cookshandbookfo03ltdgoog#page/n401/mode/2up Index]

See also

References

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External links

  • WorldCat. [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=se%3A%22Thomas+Cook+touring+handbooks%22&&dblist=638&fq= Thomas Cook Touring Handbooks]

Category:Travel guide books

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Category:Publications established in 1845