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Birthdate: 1936-04-26
Date of death: 2020-04-11
Gender: male
Education: Harvard (Art History ∙ 1957)
Occupations: publisher (Vendome Press)
editor
writer
Organizations: Alexis Gregory Foundation
Sotheby's Advisory Board
Visiting Committee of Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fogg Museum
American Friends of the Israel Museum
Awards and honors: Légion d'Honneur (Chevalier)
Officer of France's Order of Arts and Letters
Cavalliere al'Merito della Reppublica Italiana
Cause of death: COVID-19
Nationality: Switzerland (birth)
USA
Birthplace: Switzerland
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Montego Bay, Jamaica
Place of death: New York, New York, USA

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Golden Age of Travel 1850-1939 by Alexis Gregory

I often thought of the late 19th/early 20th centuries as a great time to be a traveler, to visit the world's wonders before they were put behind ropes or glass and surrounded in a haze of tourism. This book didn't really get into the exploratory aspect of early travel that I'd hoped, more focusing on a gossipy, celebratory-laden history of luxury travel in the era before travel was democratized. It was a fun, interesting - if fluffy - read all the same and contained several great images.

Jun 25, 2008