Karl Baedeker died in 1859. His spirit lives on at Medders Manor. Baedeker was father of the travel guide industry, a businessman and publisher who was based at Koblenz in his native German. Our old ...

Many years ago, while exploring an antiquarian bookstore in Koblenz, Germany, I came across what appeared to be a dusty old diary. I opened the cover carefully and saw that I held in my hands the ...

For kings and governments may err But never Mr. Baedeker. —A. P. Herbert At the stroke of noon one day, as the imperial military band began its daily concert in front of Berlin’s imperial palace, ...

Old Karl Baedeker’s son Fritz catalogued Britain for future tourist generations with the same 19th-Century Teutonic thoroughness his father had lavished on the rest of Europe. But few British ...

If ageing rock bands can reform, why shouldn't well-respected guidebooks make a comeback? History does not record whether Karl Baedeker was a mean air guitarist, but he would surely give an ...

IT would be interesting, but undoubtedly difficult, to trace the stream of guidebooks to its original source. Such slight researches as I have made seem to indicate that possibly Baedeker, like so ...

As retirement looms these days, I'm getting asked a lot what I'm going to do thereafter. Beyond what I hope will be a quiet summer, I'm not entirely sure. What do ...