Mediterranean seaports

Steamship routes and inland excursions shape the maps from Mediterranean Seaports and Sea Routes, Baedeker's handbook of 191...

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Steamship routes and inland excursions shape the maps from Mediterranean Seaports and Sea Routes, Baedeker's handbook of 1911 to the ports of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Its coverage stretched to Madeira, the Canary Islands and the coasts of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, so Funchal and Las Palmas join Algiers, Tunis, Naples, Athens and Constantinople among the town plans. Plans of Carthage and Timgad lead beyond the harbours to archaeological sites, and other sheets reach Cairo and inland North African towns. Together they record the pre-war passenger's world, in which a coastal voyage could be combined with rail journeys and visits to classical monuments.

Steamship routes and inland excursions shape the maps from Mediterranean Seaports and Sea Routes, Baedeker's handbook of 1911 to the ports of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Its coverage stretched to Madeira, the Canary Islands and the coasts of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, so Funchal and Las Palmas join Algiers, Tunis, Naples, Athens and Constantinople among the town plans. Plans of Carthage and Timgad lead beyond the harbours to archaeological sites, and other sheets reach Cairo and inland North African towns. Together they record the pre-war passenger's world, in which a coastal voyage could be combined with rail journeys and visits to classical monuments.

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