Burton Holmes. Travelogues. the Greatest Traveler of His Time 1892-1952

by Burton Holmes

It was the Belle poque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870-1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home.

From the grand boulevards of Paris to China's Great Wall, from the construction of the Panama Canal to the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Holmes delighted in finding "the beautiful way around the world" and made a career...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836557800
• ISBN13: 9783836557801
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 5.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 7.9"