{"product_id":"2940148121107","title":"Traveling Sketches","description":"TRAVELLING SKETCHES.\u003cbr\u003eTHE FAMILY THAT GOES ABROAD BECAUSE IT'S THE THING TO DO.\u003cbr\u003e________________________________________\u003cbr\u003eThat men and women should leave their homes at the end of summer and go somewhere,—though it be only to Margate,—has become a thing so fixed that incomes the most limited are made to stretch themselves to fit the rule, and habits the most domestic allow themselves to be interrupted and set at naught. That we gain much in health there can be no doubt. Our ancestors, with their wives and children, could do without their autumn tour; but our ancestors did not work so hard as we work. And we gain much also in general[6] knowledge, though such knowledge is for the most part superficial, and our mode of acquiring it too often absurd. But the English world is the better for the practice. \"Home-staying youths have ever homely wits,\" and we may fairly suppose that our youths are less homely in this particular after they have been a day or two in Paris, and a week or two in Switzerland, and up and down the Rhine, than they would have been had they remained in their London lodgings through that month of September,—so weary to those who are still unable to fly away during that most rural of months.\u003cbr\u003eUpon the whole we are proud of our traveling; but yet we must own that, as a nation of travelers, we have much to learn; and it always seems that the traveling English family which goes abroad because it's the thing to do, with no clearly defined object as to the pleasure to be obtained or the delights to be expected,—with hardly a defined idea of the place to be visited, has, as a class, more to learn than any other class of tourists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e________________________________________\u003cbr\u003eCHAP.  Page\u003cbr\u003eI. The Family that Goes Abroad because it's the Thing to Do 1\u003cbr\u003eII. The Man who Travels Alone  15\u003cbr\u003eIII. The Unprotected Female Tourist 29\u003cbr\u003eIV. The United Englishmen who Travel for Fun 43\u003cbr\u003eV. The Art Tourist 57\u003cbr\u003eVI. The Tourist in Search of Knowledge 71\u003cbr\u003eVII. The Alpine Club Man 84\u003cbr\u003eVIII. Tourists who Don't Like their Travels 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158164029680,"sku":"2940148121107","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148121107_p0.jpg?v=1763697103","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148121107","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}