Who doesn’t love travel guides? Printed or electronic, travel guides are essential for anyone who’s planning to travel to a new place. Today’s travel guides are colorful, detailed, and brimming with details. Have you ever wondered how an ancient travel guide looks like? Worry not as the British Museum has included the world’s first published travel guide in a new exhibition. Part of the exhibition, Inspired by the east: how the Islamic world influence western art, visitors can gaze their eyes upon Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam (which translates to “A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land“). This travel guide was written by the German politician and traveler Bernhard von Breydenbach in 1486, and features the first accurately printed illustrations of famous cities and Mediterranean islands like Crete and Rhodes.
(via Hyperallergic)
image credit: the British Museum via Hyperallergic