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‘Whether as professional historians or as everyday readers anxious for a closer walk with the past, we do wrong in ignoring these books as valid witnesses of their own era.’
In The Portable Paradise, prize-winning author Jonathan Keates reveals his secret passion: collecting vintage guidebooks.
Today, it’s Lonely Planet and Michelin guides – in the beginning, it was Baedeker and Murray. These Victorian volumes contain an entire archeology of cultural loss and longing. Keates takes us on a poignant, enlightening, and at times hilarious tour of that mysterious country: the past.
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