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Voyagers and Voyeurs, by Nigel WoodheadTravelers in France until the Great War An ebook compendium of highlights from the best vintage travel writing, in 2 volumes. Long before Peter Mayle grumbled his way through A Year in Provence, or Stephen Clarke traced his slippery path through A Year in the Merde, travellers from the English-speaking world were recording their impressions of the curious customs, the strange sights, sounds and smells of France. Complaining about the waiters, the bureaucracy, the plumbing; admiring the cabarets, the cheeseboards and the pretty girls... A tongue-in-cheek scrap-book of the French, and the foreigners who clocked to their shores. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the invention of the steam locomotive and steam packboat, European travel, for travel's sake, blossomed into a golden age of Innocents Abroad. A new literary genre emerged - the travelogue. Thousands set off on a Grand Tour via London, Paris, Rome - an era of discovery that was abruptly cut short in the trenches of Flanders. Due to its geographic position, its wealth of culture, and the eccentricities of its inhabitants, France always stands out from these narratives as zee place to visit…
Volume 1: Traveling to France; bureaucracy; first
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| Price | Each volume priced at only £ 2.25 (approx. $
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Or buy volumes 1 and 2 combined online now - A4 paperback version for $17.96 or download the ebook for $ 4.99 !! |
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| Page count | Each volume approx. 200+ pages A4 (PDF format). Paperback version 414 pages. | ||||||||
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Other 19th Century French history and culture titles, from FishesEye:
Vintage Photos of French Ports and Coast (Screensaver)Nearly 100 early picture postcards, old photos and period tourism posters of French ports and seaside towns, as well as beaches, lighthouses, ships and local activities. A voyage along the entire coastline, from Calais past Normandy, Brittany, Aquitaine, the Landes, round to the Riviera and Corsica. Includes historic pirate ports such as Saint Malo, and famous resorts on the Cote d'Azur, such as Nice, Cannes and Monte Carlo. Many images in color. Give your screen a French maritime flavor! Ideal gift for francophiles, yachtsmen, or old-fashioned romantics! Supplied as a .EXE installation file for Windows, with random transition effects between each image. Once installed, to edit screensaver parameters, open your computer's Control Panel, select the Display icon, click on the Screensaver tab, and choose "Old French Ports" from the list. Buy online for only $4.99 !! |
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A Vintage Paris Photo Tour (PDF ebook postcard album)An ebook album of antique photos of Paris, mainly late 19th century / early 20th. Includes monchrome, hand-tinted and colortint images. This electronic edition contains over one hundred period photos, mainly postcards, of Paris, Parisians the River Seine, and all the famous monuments (Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, Sacré Coeur, Louvre, Bastille, Champs Elysées, Notre Dame), including aerial views and busy street scenes. The photos are organised by theme, together with a hyperlinked index. The book has been formatted with a mock “aged paper effect” background, to enhance the impression of a 1900's photo souvenir album. Supplied as a landscape format PDF file, for Acrobat Reader. Buy online for only $3.99 |
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100+ French Cabaret Girls - Vintage Postcard AlbumParis in the Edwardian and Art Deco years boasted dozens of variety venues where groups of sexy girl starlets - dressed in sequined, feathery, sometimes revealing costumes, or body stockings - excited audiences each show: cabarets, music halls & vaudeville theaters, famous for their lavish musical spectacles - the Folies Bergères, Moulin Rouge, Ambassadeurs, Casino de Paris, the Opera Comique and Alcazar... Some of these pretty ladies, the stage divas and beauty queens of their day, became stars whose legendary names are still familiar: Mata Hari, Jane Avril, Gaby Deslys, Lili Damita, Josephine Baker... performing dances such as the French Cancan. Now you can enjoy a huge compendium of early artistes and chorus girls, portraits by famous studios and portrait photographers such as Reutlinger, Walery, Sazerac... compiled as a digital ebook album, with added rolling slideshow function. Over 100 images, many in beautiful hand-tinted color (no nudes). Fascinating to browse, for all fans of performing arts & classic glamour fashion, or makes a great alternative to a screen saver! Buy & download today for just $3.49 !! See also the new Volume II |
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Cancan Girls - an e-book album of vintage erotic nudes and postcards Over 100 vintage erotic images - genuine old photos and postcards - frilly fillies, lacey ladies from France, from the Naughty Nineties to the Flappers of the Roaring Twenties, in one elegant e-book! Dancers from famous cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge often modelled in their spare time, and many of these images survive as postcards. Includes rare photos by famous pioneer photographers such as Nadar, Grundworth, Agelou and Calavas. Exotic dancers, French maids in uniform, Parisian prostitutes in sexy stockings and suspenders, as well as a cheeky chorus line of cancan girls, ballet and belly dancers, actresses, artists' models, courtesans, Mata Haris, strip teasers, nudes, risqué lingerie, artistic poses and soft focus portraits - naughty Victorian, Edwardian, WWI and 20's beauties. Vive la difference! Early color, sepia, hand tinted and B&W images. Mock parchment paper effect completes the Victorian "look-and-feel", perfect bedtime reading for a traveling gentleman's portable library... Fascinating insight into the "secret history" of ladies underwear and cosmetic fashion! A quality image collection, The PDF version features mock aged paper for a Victorian "look-and-feel". Great value. A collector's item. Buy online for just $3.99 |
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London, New York, Paris - Vintage Capital ScreensaverOver 120 digitized vintage postcard images from three of the world's greatest capital cities. Landmarks, historic buildings, early skyscrapers, bridges, parks, night scenes... Beautiful and fascinating images of skylines and famous city scenery, as your grandparents might have seen them! Nostalgic and evocative. View the historic landmarks of England, France and NYC as a computer slideshow. Ideal and original identity or branding statement for architects, tourism or travel businesses. Makes an interesting and unusual gift. Supplied as a .EXE installation file for Windows, with random transition effects between each image. Once installed, to edit screensaver parameters, open your computer's Control Panel, select the Display icon, click on the Screensaver tab, and choose "London, Paris, NYC" from the list. |
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Classic French Cancan Dancers - An Ebook Photo Album!
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0oh La La! French Cabaret Girls - Vintage Photo Slideshow / DVD Screen WallpaperParis in the Edwardian and Art Deco years boasted dozens of variety venues where groups of sexy girl starlets - dressed in sequined, feathery, sometimes revealing costumes, or body stockings - excited audiences each show: cabarets, music halls & vaudeville theaters, famous for their lavish musical spectacles - the Folies Bergères, Moulin Rouge, Ambassadeurs, the Opera Comique, Casino de Paris and Alcazar... A slideshow with random artistic transition effects between the images. The show lasts nearly an hour - four hundred vintage glamour images, many in beautiful hand-tinted color (includes some risqué or topless shots), with nostalgic, jazzy background tracks. Fascinating to browse, for all fans of performing arts & classic female fashions! Play it on your TV or computer screen. (Super resolution NTSC quality images.) Also includes a few snapshot tasters for some of our other vintage photo titles. Great mood setter for parties, stores, events... |
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101 Arabian Nights - an e-book album of vintage nudes & erotic photos In 1885 the English explorer and eroticist Sir Richard Burton published his famous translation of the 1001 Arabian Nights - a poetic masterpiece of oriental erotic literature. The Victorians were obsessed with fantasies of harems and slave girls, exotic desert palaces and veiled dancing girls. A host of early photographers such as Nadar, Moreau, Neurdein, Lehnert and Landrock were quick to exploit these obsessions - producing hundreds of portraits of Arab, Bedouin and Moorish women, in various states of artistic undress. Many have survived as postcards. This ebook edition from FishesEye Publishing is an exclusive illustrated anthology of over 100 vintage risqué images, from the harems and kasbahs of Northern Africa and the Middle East, girls from the "quartiers reservés" and "maisons closes" of old British and French French colonies: Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt... in our opinion many of the very best photos from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Exotic belly dancers, seductive slave girls, servants, masseuses, water carriers - a host of pretty ladies. Early color, sepia, hand tinted and B&W images - photographs, prints and postcards. The PDF version features "mottled paper" effect to complete the Victorian "look-and-feel". An essential addition for the serious collector of electronic erotica... Great value - buy now online and download for only $3.99. |
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* Currency conversion rates last reviewed February 2006
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A collection of vintage travel tales
from the golden age of exploration and discovery; historical, scientific and
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Vintage Travels in JapanTwo Victorian travellers' eye-witness accounts of their adventures while journeying through Japan. Filled with entertaining anecdotes, this special ebook edition is illustrated with dozens of beautiful and evocative photos (many hand-tinted), early postcards; antique prints and engravings. Landscapes, portraits, rural, domestic and urban scenes of traditional daily life, local ceremonies and customs, including marriage, crime and punishment, royal court life, festivals, hara-kiri suicide. In her letters from 1878, published as Unbeaten Tracks In Japan, Isabella Bird complained about the "abominable weather" and the "insect pests". In Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs, by Lieutenant J.M.W. Silver, from 1867, we discover the secrets of mixed bath houses, funerals, and criminal executions. This joint re-edition is illustrated with dozens of beautiful and fascinating hand-tinted photos from the period, specially selected, plus prints and engravings. Supplied in PDF ebook format for Acrobat Reader. See a sample page Download for just $4.95 or order a it in 8.5 x 11 inch printed paperback edition for $26.95 |
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