Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook, produced his first handbook to England in the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond. Compared with other guides such as Murray's, Cook's aimed at "a broader and less sophisticated middle-class audience." The books served to advertise Cook's larger business of organizing travel tours. The series continues today as Traveller Guides issued by Thomas Cook Publishing of Peterborough, England.
List of Cook's travel guides by geographic coverage
Belgium
1880 ed.
China
France Cook's Guide to Paris
1900 ed. 1905 ed.
Germany
Great Britain
1998 reprint
1905 ed. 1911 ed. 1921 ed.
India
Italy
1875 ed. 1901 ed.
1901 ed.
1884 ed.
Netherlands
1880 ed.
New Zealand
1903 ed.
North Africa
+ index 1905 ed.
+ Index 1911 ed. 1921 ed.
Palestine and Syria Cook's Tourists' Handbook to Palestine and Syria 1876 edition
Scandinavia Cook's Handbook to Scandinavia Sweden
+ Index
Spain
Switzerland
1879 ed. 1905 ed. 1922 ed.
Syria + Index + Index
See also Thomas Cook European Timetable
References
External links WorldCat. Thomas Cook Touring Handbooks