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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Chronology; Preface; One: Religion, Railways and Respectability; Two: A Nonconformist Childhood; Three: The Protestant Ethic; Four: A Spade! A Rake! A Hoe!; Five: A Long Way from the River Jordan; Six: Lay Preacher; Seven: Another New Career; Eight: A New Life in an Old Town; Nine: Total Abstinence; Ten: 'Excursions Unite Man to Man, and Man to God'; Eleven: Leicester: Printer of Guides and Temperance Hymn Books; Twelve: 1845: The Commercial Trips, Liverpool, North Wales and Scotland; Thirteen: Scotland; Fourteen: Corn Laws: 'Give Us Our Daily Bread'
Fifteen: Bankruptcy and BackwardsSixteen: 1848: Knowing Your Place in Society and Respecting Your Betters; Seventeen: The Great Exhibition; Eighteen: Paxton, Prince Albert and the Great Exhibition; Nineteen: Building Houses; Twenty: Crimea; Twenty-one: The Second and Third Decades; Twenty-two: A Leap in the Dark; Twenty-three: America at Last!; Twenty-four: For 'All the People!'; Twenty-five: The Holy Land; Twenty-six: Jerusalem, Jerusalem; Twenty-seven: The Opening of the Suez Canal; Twenty-eight: Paris: War, 1870; Twenty-nine: Around the World; Thirty: Grandeur; Thirty-one: Egypt
Thirty-two: 'My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?'Epilogue; Appendix: Three Cook Letters; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements
Rich people from the times of the Greeks and Romans had always travelled for pleasure, indeed there was nothing new in the aristocratic Grand Tours taking in Paris and Rome, but it was Thomas Cook - aided by the spreading of the railways, an increase in statutory holidays and his wide use of advertising who first helped to bring mobility to the masses. In this, the first book to look at the man behind the business, Jill Hamilton explores the origins of the former Baptist lay-preacher who wanted to take campaigners to a temperance meeting in the Midlands and thus organised the first ever packag