The Smell Of The Continent - The Victorians Discover Europe:
Richard Mullen

In this romp through a hundred years of Victorian tourism, historian Richard Mullen examines just what it was about ‘the smell of the continent’ that so attracted British travellers for the first time in history, to set out en masse to discover Europe. Drawing on contemporary accounts, diaries and letters, he looks at their attitudes to foreign food, modes of transport and habits – revealing that the gulf between the traveller and the tourist was as wide in our great- grandparents’ time as it is today.