''Black's Guides'' were travel
guide book
A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities. Maps of varying det ...
s published by the
Adam and Charles Black
A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing. The company is noted for publishing '' Who's Who'' since 1849. It also published popular travel guides and novels.
History
The firm was founded in 1 ...
firm of Edinburgh (later London) beginning in 1839.
The series' style tended towards the "colloquial, with fewer cultural pretensions" than its leading competitor ''
Baedeker Guides
''Baedeker Guides'' are travel guide books published by the Karl Baedeker firm of Germany beginning in the 1830s.
List of Baedeker guides by year of publication
1850s (in German)
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''. Contributors included
David T. Ansted
David Thomas Ansted Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (5 February 181413 May 1880) was an English professor of geology and author of numerous books on geology. His role as a teacher at Addiscombe Military Seminary, where future East India Company ...
, Charles Bertram Black, and A.R. Hope Moncrieff.
List of Black's Guides by geographic coverage
Egypt
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France
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Great Britain
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Ireland
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Italy
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Netherlands
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Norway
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Palestine
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Switzerland
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Turkey
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References
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Travel guide books
Series of books
Publications established in 1839
A & C Black books
Tourism in Europe