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Further Reading Planet, Rough Guide, and Routard, are lucrative for their
Bellwood, Peter S. (1979). Man’s conquest of the Pacific: The prehistory publishers. New editions of travel books appear annually,
of South East Asia and Oceania. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Boulnois, L. (1966) The Silk Road. Union Lake, MI: Odyssey focusing on tourist destinations around the globe.These
Publications. new editions are read by novice and veteran travelers
Bulliet, R.W. (1975). The camel and the wheel. New York: Columbia Uni- alike, eager to see the newest recommendations of restau-
versity Press.
Casson, L. (1971). Ships and seamanship in the ancient world. Baltimore: rants, lodgings, and sights.
The Johns Hopkins University Press. Yet, travel guides have a much longer history. For cen-
Chevalier, R. (1989). Roman roads. London, Christe Y. turies travelers across the globe have embarked on jour-
Coquery-Vidrovitch, C., & Lovejoy, P. E. (1985). The workers of African
trade. Beverley Hills, CA: Sage Publications. neys for a variety of motives. Such motives could include
Davis, C. B., & Wilburn, K. E. (Eds.). (1991). Railroad imperialism. New economic gain, spiritual solace, or merely the love of
York: Greenwood.
Dyos, H. J., & Aldercroft, D. A. (1969). British transport: An economic adventure. Travelers have recorded their sights and
survey from the seventeenth century to the twentieth. Leicester, UK: thoughts for both current and future wayfarers to consult.
Leicester University Press.
Gamble, C. (1983). Timewalkers: The prehistory of global colonization. Thus, travel guides function as extremely valuable sources
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. for studying global history.
Hornell, J. (1970). Water transport, origins and early evolution. Newton
Abbot, UK: David & Charles.
Jones, G. (1886). The Norse Atlantic saga: Being the Norse voyages of dis- Initial Links between
covery and settlement to Iceland, Greenland and North America. West and East
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McDougall,W. A. (1985). The heavens and the Earth: A political history Since antiquity, trading and cultural connections linked
of the Space Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Europe with Africa and Asia. The central Asian con-
Needham, J. (1962). Science and civilization in China, Vol. IV, Part 4, civil quests of king Alexander of Macedon (d. 323 BCE) linked
engineering and nautics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Publishing.
Stover, J. F. (1961). American railroads. Chicago: University of Chicago the lands of Mesopotamia with those of the Mediter-
Press. ranean to the west, and his conquests of Punjab and the
Trombold, C. D. (1991). Ancient road networks and settlement hierarchies Indus River linked the west to the east. After Alexander’s
in the New World. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Unger, R. (1980). The ship in the medieval economy, 600-1600. London: death, subsequent Hellenistic (Greek) empires extended
Croom Helm. Greek cultural traditions to the larger world, integrating
Vance J. E., Jr. (1990). Capturing the horizon:The historical geography of
transportation since the transportation revolution of the sixteenth cen- the economies and societies of the Mediterranean, Egypt,
tury. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. and central Asia, and permitting the widespread ex-
change of ideas, values, and faiths.
The rise of the Roman state as the predominant mili-
tary, political, and economic power of the Italian penin-
Travel Guides sula during the late fourth century BCE brought a greater
imposition of Roman might on Mediterranean affairs. In
he travel and tourism industries, analyzed globally, the Mediterranean basin Rome clashed with other pow-
Tgenerate billions of dollars annually. The national ers, such as Carthage and the Hellenistic empires. By the
economies of some countries rely heavily on tourists who middle of the second century BCE Rome had defeated
visit for either work or recreation. Travel also affects Carthage and subjected the Hellenistic empires to dom-
other industries.The financial stability of the transporta- ination by Roman allies, ensuring that Rome would be
tion system, comprised largely of airplanes, ships, and rail the dominant Mediterranean power.
and road networks, is dependent upon travelers’ willing- A brutal civil war (87–83 BCE), widespread urban
ness to journey beyond the confines of their home. The poverty, and rampant inflation contributed to social ills
hospitality and restaurant industries profit from travelers’ within the Roman republic and paved the way for Gaius
business. Modern travel guides, such as Fodor’s, Lonely Julius Caesar (d. 44 BCE) to forge the Roman empire.The