A Hearth Library collection
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Inns, hotels, cruises and stores, from Babylon to Skylab
How strangers became paying guests and shoppers, in the words of the people who ran the inns, sailed on the first pleasure cruises, built the first grand hotels and stores, and lived in the first space station. A companion to Reaching Space, and the sources behind the hotel side of Space Hotel Ltd.
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Classroom units on Hearth Learning. Each asks one big question and gathers its sources, teacher notes, a worksheet for each source and a download for your LMS.
- Unit 1Being a guestHow were travelers and guests treated, and what did hosts owe them?8 sources
- Unit 2Selling comfortHow did inns, hotels, restaurants, cruises and stores sell comfort and pleasure?6 sources
Sources
Poem
A bad night at the inn on the road to Brundisium
Horace, journey probably in the spring of 37 BCE; written soon after, The road from Rome to Brundisium
LatinEarly version
Inns, hotels and restaurantsTravel by road, rail and airPoetry
Rule
Receive every guest as Christ
Benedict, written about 530–547, Monte Cassino
LatinEarly version
Inns, hotels and restaurantsChristianity
Travel account
The Great Khan's post houses
Marco Polo, dictated in 1298; about what Polo saw in China between about 1275 and 1291, Canbalu (Khanbaliq)
Old FrenchChecked
Inns, hotels and restaurantsTravel by road, rail and airRulers and courts
Travel account
Taking the waters at Bath
Fiennes, an undated visit before 1702, perhaps on one of her early journeys; written up about 1702; first printed 1888, Bath
EnglishEarly version
Tourism, resorts and cruisesDoctors and medical ideasHomes, towns and building
Essay
On restaurants, Paris, 1825
Brillat-Savarin, published December 1825, Paris
FrenchChecked
Inns, hotels and restaurantsCooking and recipesFood, farming and hunger
Description
The Rooms of the Tremont House
Eliot, 1830, on the hotel opened in October 1829, Boston
EnglishChecked
Inns, hotels and restaurantsHomes, towns and building
Travel account
A free ticket on an early pleasure cruise
Thackeray, voyage of 1844; preface and book published 1846, Off Cape Finisterre and Vigo Bay
EnglishChecked
Tourism, resorts and cruisesVoyages and sea travel
Travel account
The Program of the Grand Pleasure Excursion
Twain, programme dated February 1, 1867; book published 1869, New York
EnglishEarly version
Tourism, resorts and cruisesVoyages and sea travelTrade, markets and money
Literature
Opening day of the great sale
Zola, published 1883, Paris
FrenchChecked
Stores, catalogues and shoppingStories and novelsTrade, markets and money
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