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*Cook's Handbook to Norway and Denmark*, 1907

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."^[1] The books served to advertise Cook's larger business of organizing travel tours.^[1] The series continues today as Traveller Guides issued by Thomas Cook Publishing of Peterborough, England.^[2]

List of Cook's travel guides by geographic coverage

Belgium

Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine, London: T. Cook & Son, 1874
- Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine, London: T. Cook & Son, 1877
- 1880 ed.
- Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Holland, Belgium, the Rhine and Black Forest, London: T. Cook & Son, 1901
Traveller's Handbook for Belgium and the Ardennes, London: T. Cook & Son, 1911
- Traveller's Handbook for Belgium and the Ardennes, London: T. Cook & Son, 1921

China

Cook's Handbook for Tourists to Peking, Tientsin, Shan-Hai-Kwan, Mukden, Dalny, Port Arthur, and Seoul, London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1910

France

Cook's Guide to Paris^[3]
Cook's Handbook to the Health Resorts of the South of France, London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1881
- 1900 ed.
- 1905 ed.
Cook's Handbook for Normandy and Brittany, London: T. Cook & Son, 1883
- Thomas Cook Ltd. (1898), Cook's handbook for Normandy and Brittany .., London: T. Cook & Son, OCLC 8376896, OL 6905295M

Germany

Cook's Tourist's Handbook for the Black Forest, London: T. Cook & Son, 1876
Cook's Tourist's Handbook for the Rhine (South-Western Germany) and the Black Forest, London: T. Cook & Son, 1906

Great Britain

Handbook of the Trip to Liverpool. Leicester: T. Cook. 1845.^[4]^[5]
- 1998 reprint
Cook's Scottish Tourist Practical Directory, London: Thomas Cook, 1866^[6]
Cook's Handbook for London, London: Thos. Cook & Son, 1878
- Cook's Handbook for London, London: T. Cook & Son, 1881
- 1905 ed.
- 1911 ed.
- 1921 ed.

New Zealand

New Zealand as a Tourist and Health Resort, Auckland: T. Cook & Son, 1902, OCLC 18158487, OL 7093583M
- 1903 ed.

North Africa

Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Egypt, London: T. Cook & Son, 1876
E.A. Wallis Budge (1901). The Nile (7th ed.). T. Cook & Son (Egypt) Ltd. – via Open Library. + index
- 1905 ed.
Cook's Practical Guide to Algiers, Algeria and Tunisia, London: T. Cook & Son, 1904
- Cook's Practical Guide to Algeria and Tunisia, London: T. Cook & Son, 1908
Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1906), Cook's Handbook for Egypt and the Sudan (2nd ed.), London: T. Cook & Son, OCLC 7434398, OL 23291093M + Index^[7]
- 1911 ed.
- 1921 ed.

Palestine and Syria

Cook's Tourists' Handbook to Palestine and Syria 1876 edition

Scandinavia

Cook's Handbook to Scandinavia^[3]
Sweden^[8]
Thomas Cook & Son (1907), Cook's Handbook to Norway and Denmark, with Iceland and Spitsbergen, London{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
- Thomas Cook & Son (1911), Cook's Handbook to Norway and Denmark, with Iceland and Spitsbergen, London{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) + Index
- Thomas Cook Ltd. (1922), Traveller's Handbook for Norway and Denmark, London{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Spain

Albert F. Calvert (1912), Traveller's Handbook for Spain, London: Thomas Cook & Son

Switzerland

Cook's Tourist's Handbook to Switzerland, London: T. Cook & Son, 1874
- Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Switzerland, London: T. Cook & Son, 1876, OCLC 28700602, OL 6940520M
- 1879 ed.
- 1905 ed.
- 1922 ed.

Syria

Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Palestine and Syria, London: T. Cook & Son, 1876 + Index
- J.E. Hanauer; E.G. Masterman (1907), Cook's Handbook for Palestine and Syria, London: Thos. Cook & Son + Index

References

^ ^a ^b Rudy Koshar (July 1998). "'What Ought to Be Seen': Tourists' Guidebooks and National Identities in Modern Germany and Europe". Journal of Contemporary History. 33 (3): 323–340. JSTOR 261119.
^ "Traveller Guides". Peterborough, England: Thomas Cook Publishing/Thomas Cook Tour Operations Ltd. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
^ ^a ^b Ltd, Thomas Cook (1906), "Guide Books (advertisement)", Cook's Tourist's Handbook for the Rhine
^ W. Fraser Rae (1891), "The Business of Travel: a Fifty Years' Record of Progress", Nature, 44 (1133), London: T. Cook and Son: 247, Bibcode:1891Natur..44..247., doi:10.1038/044247c0, hdl:2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t8pc3j956, OL 14588832M, S2CID 3969901, Banquet to commemorate the fiftieth year of the business of Thomas Cook & Son, at the Hôtel Métropole, July 22nd, 1891
^ Jack Simmons (1984). "Railways, Hotels, and Tourism in Great Britain 1839-1914". Journal of Contemporary History. 19 (2): 201–222. doi:10.1177/002200948401900203. JSTOR 260593. S2CID 162240939.
^ Alexander H. Japp (1892), "Thomas Cook & Son", Successful Business-Men, London: J.S. Virtue & Co.
^ "Book Department", Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, July 1907
^ "Cook's Travellers' Handbooks (advertisement)", Cook's Handbook to Naples, 1922