''Murray's Handbooks for Travellers'' were travel
guide book
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John Murray beginning in 1836. The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa. According to scholar James Buzard, the Murray style "exemplified the exhaustive rational planning that was as much an ideal of the emerging tourist industry as it was of British commercial and industrial organization generally." The guidebooks became popular enough to appear in works of fiction such as
Charles Lever
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Biography Early life
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's ''Dodd Family Abroad.'' After 1915 the series continued as the ''
Blue Guides'' and the familiar gold gilted red Murrays Handbooks published by John Murray London including the
long running Handbook to India, Pakistan, Ceylon & Burma which concluded with the 21st edition in 1968 before changing from the original format of 1836 to a more modern paperback edition of 1975.
List of Murray's Handbooks by date of publication
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List of Murray's Handbooks by geographic coverage
Algeria
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Great Britain
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South West England
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Yorkshire and the Humber
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* {{cite book , editor= W.B.C. Lister , title= A Bibliography of Murray's Handbooks for Travellers , publisher=Dereham Books , year=1993
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