Voyagers and Voyeurs, by Nigel Woodhead

A treasure-chest from the golden age of travel writing. Long before Peter Mayle grumbled his way through A Year in Provence, or Stephen Clarke traced his slippery path through A Year in the Merde, travellers from the English-speaking world were amazed by the curious customs, the strange sights, sounds and smells of France. Complaining about the waiters, the plumbing, admiring the cheeseboards and pretty girls. 

Annotated, humorous highlights from well over 100 travel accounts (travelogues, diaries, journals, collected letters, reports, guide books) written between 1750 and 1918. English and American authors, including some of the most famous literary figures of the 18th and 19th centuries: Dickens, RL Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Henry James, Thackeray, plus an eccentric host of itinerant parsons, amateur antiquarians, well-heeled aristocrats and ladies of independent spirit. A huge read. 

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Cancan Girls - an e-book album of vintage erotic nudes and postcards

Over 100 vintage erotic images - genuine old photos and postcards - frilly fillies, lacey ladies from France, from the Naughty Nineties to the Flappers of the Roaring Twenties, in one elegant e-book! Dancers from famous cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge often modelled in their spare time, and many of these images survive as postcards. Includes rare photos by famous pioneer photographers such as Nadar, Grundworth, Agelou and Calavas.

Exotic dancers, French maids in uniform, Parisian prostitutes in sexy stockings and suspenders, as well as a cheeky chorus line of cancan girls, ballet and belly dancers, actresses, artists' models, courtesans, Mata Haris, strip teasers, nudes, risqué lingerie, artistic poses and soft focus portraits - naughty Victorian, Edwardian, WWI and 20's beauties. Vive la difference!

Early color, sepia, hand tinted and B&W images. Mock parchment paper effect completes the Victorian "look-and-feel", perfect bedtime reading for a traveling gentleman's portable library... Fascinating insight into the "secret history" of ladies underwear and cosmetic fashion!

A Vintage Paris Photo Tour (PDF ebook postcard album)

An ebook album of antique photos of Paris, mainly late 19th century / early 20th. Includes monchrome, hand-tinted and colortint images.

This electronic edition contains over one hundred period photos, mainly postcards, of Paris, Parisians the River Seine, and all the famous monuments (Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, Sacré Coeur, Louvre, Bastille, Champs Elysées, Notre Dame), including aerial views and busy street scenes.

The photos are organised by theme, together with a hyperlinked index. The book has been formatted with a mock “aged paper effect” background, to enhance the impression of a 1900's photo souvenir album. Supplied as a landscape format PDF file, for Acrobat Reader. Buy online for only $3.99 

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An Absinthe Scrapbook (illustrated PDF ebook)

Absinthe - the legendary demon drink of the decadent 19th Century, that inspired a cult and drove many of its artistic and literary devotees mad or to suicide(writers and artists including Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Aleister Crowley, Oscar Wilde).

A collection of dozens of illustrations - Art Nouveau posters, labels, adverts, art, paraphanalia, for all the major brands of absinthe, pastis and anisette, Terminus, Oxygenée and Pernod. Plus:

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