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Zenon Vantini from grand tour to package holiday.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
LUTTERWORTH PRESS,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Sources and Acknowledgements
- Preface Writing During a Pandemic
- Zenon Vantini's Family Tree
- 1 Who Was Zenon Vantini?
- Part 1: Great Houses, 1825-1840
- 2. Extravagant Housekeeping
- 3. Changing from Road to Rail
- Part 2: Grand Hotels, 1839-1870
- 4. The Birth of Railway Hotels
- the Euston and the Victoria
- 5. The North Euston Hotel, Fleetwood
- 6. The Dangers of Railway Refreshment Rooms
- Wolverton
- 7. The Doorstep to France and the North East of England
- 8. The Birth of the Foreign Package Holiday
- Part 3: Elba, Napoleon and Waterloo, 1797-1815
- 9. Elba, the Vantinis and the Arrival of Napoleon
- 10. Napoleon's Houses and Administration
- 11. The Vantinis during Napoleon's Exile
- Part 4: Interludes, 1815-1832
- 13. Vantini after Waterloo and the July Revolution of 1830
- Part 5: Vantini, a Whole Life, 1797-1870
- 14. Zenon's Daughters
- 15. Vantini's Achievements and Finance
- 16. What Sort of man?
- Appendix: Translations of Extracts from Vantini's Dossier at the Service Historique de la Defense
- Endnotes
- Acknowledgements of Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover