Baedeker

Instead of train schedules, recommended hotels and museum hours, what Lawrence sought to capture was both less concrete and more profound than the 19th-century German publisher Baedeker, still synonymous with travel guides and tourism.

Published in 1942, "Castaway's Baedeker to the South Seas" was a "travel" survival guide, of sorts, for servicemen stranded on Pacific islands.

Baedeker said this week he changed his mind on not filing a complaint, which would have put the matter before CHRB’s Board of Stewards, because he didn’t want to pass the buck.

Geoff Crowther, whose advice in artisanal Baedekers and later as a pioneering author for the Lonely Planet backpackers’ guidebooks lured intrepid travelers to offbeat destinations, died on April 13 in South East Queensland, Australia.

A Baedeker guidebook on Canada, published in 1907, offers some inspiration for contemporary travelers seeking fresh air.