by Thomas Cook, Louis James · Ediciones Granica, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475773629
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«Viena» is the travel guide by Thomas Cook and Louis James, published by Ediciones Granica in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
The book is a practical guide to the Austrian capital that gathers useful information for preparing a trip to Vienna. It includes maps, photographs, practical tips for getting around the city, and suggestions of places to see during the stay.
The work belongs to the Thomas Cook Travel collection and this edition was published in 1997.
Aimed at travelers planning to visit Vienna and looking for practical and visual information to organize their itinerary.
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.
