Word: traveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...together, together, together. They're in a rut. The wife decides to go someplace the husband doesn't want to go. So he'll want to know where he can find a good-looking girl. So we'll tell him. It's part of life and part of travel." On the other hand, the Guide makes a point of warning that "there's a new strain of gonorrhea so hardy that it eats sulfa and penicillin for breakfast...
...Fielding concentrates on the practical and physical rather than on the cultural, there are always other guidebooks to fill the void. J. A. Neal's Reference Guide for Travellers lists 942 books on Europe alone. There are shopping guides, currency guides, and guides that tell parents how to travel...
...with their children without losing either their cool or their kids. A clutch of paperback "budget" guides are aimed at people who want to believe that they can travel abroad more cheaply than they can live at home. The opposite extreme is represented by A Millionaire's Guide to Europe, which is full of advice on how to behave as if you owned that rented Spanish villa. Or how to fly a private jet around the Continent, or hold a party in a rented windmill...
What Frommer says has the ring of solid silver. His Europe on $5 a Day outsells Fielding's Super-Economy Guide by about two to one, and one reason surely is the Fielding book's patronizing attitude toward low-budget travel. "What about the bargain-basement Continent of $1 rooms, 500 meals and 250 drinks?" reads the introduction. "Yes, you can ferret out those places?just as the visitor to New York City can ferret out a bed along the Bowery's Skid Row and a 250 meal at a soup kitchen. But you are an American." Fielding's people...
...takes a special kind of travel writer to steer his readers to steerburgers in Italy. And Temple Fielding is special. He is a superpatriotic expatriate (witness the U.S. flag that flies from the fender of his siren-equipped Cadillac convertible) and a Swinburned sentimentalist. Although he has lived abroad for 18 years, most of them on the island of Majorca, he does not speak a foreign language. His son Dodge, a senior at New York's Hamilton College, recalls an awkward scene one day when Fielding kept telling a Spanish cab driver that he wanted to pick up some coj?...