Richard Ford and His 'Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5288629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edmund W Gilbert (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1945 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 3/4 |
| Pages | 144 |
| Publication date | 1945-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1789266 |
| OpenAlex | W2325153542 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The centenary of the publication of Richard Ford's 'Hand-book for travellers i Spain' must not be allowed to pass without some account of the man and his book, rightly classed by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell as among the best books of travel, humour and history, social, literary, political and artistic, in the English language. x It is especially appropriate that Richard Ford's achievement should be remembered in the Geographical Journal as he was for some years a Fellow of the Society.2 After the end of the Napoleonic wars an annually increasing number of British tourists visited the continent, but very few adequate English guidebooks were then available to assist these travellers. It is true that an admirable
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |