tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post4645390208914874377..comments2024-03-19T10:12:43.882+00:00Comments on Bookride: Baedeker Madeira 1939.Bookridehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05881971821359627382noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045845679444796608.post-52812609163516638902009-02-23T10:19:00.000+00:002009-02-23T10:19:00.000+00:00I love the old Baedekers, Blue Guides, Michelin Gu...I love the old Baedekers, Blue Guides, Michelin Guides - not just vanished worlds but created worlds.<BR/><BR/>Graham Robb points out in his great Discovery of France that the Michelin guides were needed with the introduction of the car: Parisians who stopped in much of rural France and asked directions in French just wouldn't be understood: indeed might be in actual danger. <BR/><BR/>Cartographers were being attacked and even murdered in the 19th-century Massif Central by peasants who belonged to a different, ancient - and nonFrench - world.<BR/><BR/>Will look out for the Madeira Baedeker!Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.com