A Hand-book for Travellers in Spain, and Readers at Home

A Hand-book for Travellers in Spain, and Readers at Home is Richard Ford's celebrated 1845 travel guide, the product of years spent traveling extensively through Spain on horseback in the 1830s. Combining practical travel information with sharp humor and vivid anecdotes, it became a defining work of the travel-guide genre, selling out most of its first print run within its debut year.

Richard Ford's classic 19th-century travel guide to Spain, prized for its blend of practical detail and lively wit.