Germany
Whom God would truly favour,
he sends into the wide world;
to him he will show his wonders
in mountain and forest, river and field.
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Heinrich von Stephan and the Address at the End of the Road
A letter waiting in Cairo. A hotel forwarding the news. Heinrich von Stephan helped build the postal world that let travellers stay away.
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Ernst Leitz III: The Traveller’s Second Pair of Eyes
As jets brought distant places closer, Ernst Leitz III’s company made serious binoculars light enough to become a traveller’s constant companion.
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Bertha Benz – The Woman Who Invented the Road Trip
Before Route 66 and the romance of the open road, Bertha Benz took an experimental car, two boys and a hatpin on a journey to see her mother.
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Hugo Eckener: The Man Who Made the Sky a Place to Stay
Ferdinand von Zeppelin proved a rigid airship could fly. Hugo Eckener turned it into a timetable, a service culture and, briefly, a place where people could live between…
Germany 1900
A Portrait in Colour
TASCHEN
Turn-of-the-century Germany in colour, from Bavarian castles to Baltic bathing resorts.
XL hardcover with fold-outs · Some 800 photochroms · English, French and German text
25 × 34 cm
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Some of my Instagram posts from Germany
