by Thomas Cook · Ediciones Granica, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475774923
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«China» is the Thomas Cook travel guide, published in 1999 by Ediciones Granica in paperback (196 pages, in Spanish).
Travel guide in Spanish dedicated to China as a tourist destination. The cover shows images of the country —a traditional arch under a blue sky, a figure in typical attire and an urban scene— that anticipate the content aimed at those visiting the destination.
Part of the Thomas Cook Travellers series; 196-page paperback edition, ISBN 9788475774923.
For travelers seeking a guide in Spanish to prepare for or accompany a stay in China.
Thomas Cook was the founder of the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was born into a poor family in Derbyshire and left school at the age of ten to start work as a gardener's boy. He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker before becoming an itinerant Baptist preacher. He was a supporter of the temperance movement and his first foray into tourism was a railway excursion to Loughborough for members of the Leicester Temperance Society in 1841. Following the success of this excursion, Cook, by now settled with his family in Leicester, began to organise tours further afield in the British Isles and, eventually, to the United States, Egypt and the Holy Land. In 1872, he went into business with his son as Thomas Cook & Son, with a head office in London. Following his retirement in 1878, he returned to Leicester and took an interest in the Baptist church and charitable work until his death. Cook is credited with having, through his all-inclusive tours, made travel and tourism accessible to a wider public.
