The sinner's grand tour a journey through the historic underbelly of Europe

Summary: Sex and travel have always been intertwined, and never more so than on the classic Grand Tour of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today the Continent is still littered with salacious remnants of that golden age, where secret boudoirs, notorious dungeons, and forbidden artifacts lured travelers all the way from London to Capri.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307592194 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0307592197 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (219 p.) : ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue : the Devil's travel bureau -- Hellfire holidays : the great British sex club tour -- From Paris to the gutter : "erotic archeology" of the belle époque -- Infernal provence : the Marquis de Sade is dead!, long live Pierre Cardin! -- Year itch : the love lives of medieval peasants -- Wild and crazy Swiss : Sex and drugs and lyric poetry -- "Little death" in Venice : the covert Casanova tour -- Vatican vice : the Pope's pornographic bathroom -- Return of the pagans : the once and future paradise of Capri.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.