by Thomas Cook · Ediciones Granica, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475774428
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«Irlanda» is the Thomas Cook travel guide, published by Ediciones Granica in paperback (278 pages, in Spanish).
Travel guide to Ireland that brings the reader closer to Irish landscapes and culture. It offers practical information for the traveler, with an overview of the country that helps prepare a route and get around the territory.
The book is part of the Thomas Cook Travellers collection. Spanish edition, published on March 1, 1996.
Aimed at the traveler wanting to prepare a visit to Ireland and at the reader interested in an overview of the country.
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.
