The world tour craze: from Jules Verne to the first globetrotters.
University of Geneva| N° d'inventaire | 31588 |
| Format | 19 x 28 cm |
| Détails | 248 p., paperback |
| Publication | Geneva, 2025 |
| Etat | nine |
| ISBN | 9782359064599 |
The book focuses on the first trips around the globe undertaken by tourists for pleasure. These journeys became possible as early as 1870, following the opening of the Suez Canal and the American transcontinental railroad. They became extremely popular with the publication in 1872 of Jules Verne's legendary novel, "Around the World in 80 Days." The war in 1914 put an end to this practice, which resumed in the 1920s, but under new conditions with the opening of airlines.
Tourist world tours are defined as circuits undertaken around the planet for the purpose of circumnavigating it and for non-professional reasons. Therefore, we are not interested here in diplomats, writers, or students who travel around the world as part of their work. The circuit must constitute a loop; it must cross all the meridians. However, it does not necessarily pass through all the continents or both hemispheres, and can be more or less long depending on the latitude followed and the detours that take it away from the straight line.
Tens of thousands of tourists, the vast majority of them Westerners, traveled the world between 1869 and 1914. More than 250 published accounts of their journeys. This activity remained reserved for wealthy and leisured people.
At the end of the 19th century, world travel became a central motif in Western culture, attesting to a new geographical imagination and a new relationship with the world: the globe became the playground of Westerners, who traveled around it as owners. The mania for world tours marked an important moment in globalization.
The book focuses on the first trips around the globe undertaken by tourists for pleasure. These journeys became possible as early as 1870, following the opening of the Suez Canal and the American transcontinental railroad. They became extremely popular with the publication in 1872 of Jules Verne's legendary novel, "Around the World in 80 Days." The war in 1914 put an end to this practice, which resumed in the 1920s, but under new conditions with the opening of airlines.
Tourist world tours are defined as circuits undertaken around the planet for the purpose of circumnavigating it and for non-professional reasons. Therefore, we are not interested here in diplomats, writers, or students who travel around the world as part of their work. The circuit must constitute a loop; it must cross all the meridians. However, it does not necessarily pass through all the continents or both hemispheres, and can be more or less long depending on the latitude followed and the detours that take it away from the straight line.
Tens of thousands of tourists, the vast majority of them Westerners, traveled the world between 1869 and 1914. More than 250 published accounts of their journeys. This activity remained reserved for wealthy and leisured people.
At the end of the 19th century, world travel became a central motif in Western culture, attesting to a new geographical imagination and a new relationship with the world: the globe became the playground of Westerners, who traveled around it as owners. The mania for world tours marked an important moment in globalization.