Lost Worlds: The Forgotten Magic of Travel before Mass Tourism

In this sweeping opus of the Golden Age of travel, best-selling author Granville Toogood takes us back to a long-lost world that spans more than five decades. It's a world so alien that anyone born in the 21st Century might think they'd landed on another planet. Beginning in 1963, these stories, selected from more than a hundred travel articles, bring to life a sweet spot in history: a time before jumbo jets. airport security, the internet, faxes, personal computers, online streaming, texting, social media, Google, digital photography, GPS, Al Qaida, AIDS, worldwide pollution, dying reefs, the population explosion, climate change and COVID. Read them, and relive a world we'll never see again.