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The Well-Packed Bag
Don’t Forget Your . . .
From: Wanderlust
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Chapter Eleven focuses on the invention of travel guides and guidebooks. The chapter explores the art of travel accounts in various forms of literature from early Christian pilgrims to guidebooks to the Grand tour, the history of the passport and its importance, the traditions of souvenirs, and the history and importance of traveler’s cheques.
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Laura Byrne Paquet
Laura Byrne Paquet is the author of The Urge to Splurge: A Social History of Shopping. Her articles have appeared in more than 70 publications in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including National Geographic, Traveler, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, enRoute, Chatelaine, Canadian Living, and the Ottawa Citizen. Between her globe-trotting adventures, she finds time to write romance novels from her Ottawa home.
