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Author:   Pamela Sambrook
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   Lutterworth Press
ISBN:  

9780718895761

ISBN 10:   0718895762
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   27 May 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introducing Zenon Vantini, 1797-1870 Part 1: 1825-c.1847. England Chapter 2. Extravagant Housekeeping Chapter 3. Changing from Road to Rail Chapter 4. Birth of Railway Hotels - Euston and Fleetwood Chapter 5. Dangers of Refreshment Rooms - Wolverton Chapter 6. Doorstep to France and the North of England Part 2: c.1843-1860s. France Chapter 7. Birth of the Foreign Package Holiday Part 3: 1797-1815, Elba Chapter 8. Elba, the Vantinis and the Arrival of Napoleon Chapter 9. Napoleon's Households and Administration Chapter 10. The Vantinis during the Exile Chapter 11. To France and Waterloo Part 4: 1816-1832. Interludes Chapter 12. You may not believe this Part 5: 1797-1870. Vantini, a Whole Life Chapter 13. Zenon's Daughters Chapter 14. Vantini in Retrospect

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Zenon Vantini grasped the opportunities presented by political and economic developments in nineteenth-century Europe in a truly exemplary fashion. On his native Elba, he encountered the exiled Napoleon, whom he joined for the Hundred Days. Then, having pursued domestic service in Britain, he conceived the idea of catering for railway travellers, via a chain of hotels that encompassed the continent. Vantini's fascinating transnational career is memorably explored by Pamela Sambrook in this engrossing study. Malcolm Crook, emeritus professor of French History, Keele University This was a most enjoyable read, highly informative and the book has page turning qualities making it difficult to put down. The excitement of the chase is not immediately apparent, but develops well before Napoleon enters stage left. Paul Anderton, former Adult Education Tutor, Keele University Zenon Vantini leased and managed the first railway-owned hotel (at Euston) and the first railway refreshment rooms (at Wolverton). He organised the first continental rail tours ten years before Thomas Cook. Probably no railway pioneer had a more unusual and exotic back-story, yet he is virtually unknown, even to specialist historians. This book fills a significant gap in transport history. Peter Brown, Transport historian, formerly reviews editor of the Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society

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Pamela Sambrook is a former museum curator and distinguished researcher into country-house domestic offices and the lives of the servants who worked in them. She has now retired from consultancy to the National Trust, English Heritage, and from teaching.

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