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by Thomas Cook · Ediciones Granica, S.A. · tapa blanda · 192 pages
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Descubre Grecia con esta guía de Thomas Cook, que incluye información sobre Atenas. Explora la rica historia y cultura de Grecia, desde sus antiguas ruinas hasta sus hermosas islas. Esta guía te proporcionará información práctica y consejos útiles para planificar tu viaje y aprovechar al máximo tu experiencia en Grecia.

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.