''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 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''. 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
1830s-1850s
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index
1860s-1870s
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Index*
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Index*
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1880s-1890s
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Index*
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1900s-1910s
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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
Book series
Publications established in 1839
A & C Black books
Tourism in Europe