Baedeker

Baedeker
    n 1: German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks
         (1801-1859) [syn: {Baedeker}, {Karl Baedeker}]
    2: any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German
       firm founded by Karl Baedeker
    

BAEDEKER

Karl, one of the most versatile men who ever lived.
Childhood and old age unknown.  Formed an ambition to travel
when quite young.  First visited Switzerland, where he climbed
every peak, walked every path, hired every guide, and did
everything a tourist should so. His field of travel widened
until every country in Europe was visited, as well as the
United States, Canada, Alaska, and Mexico.  In these lands he
slept in every hotel, ate every dish in every restaurant, drank
every wine, rode on every boat, tramway, subway, and train;
visited every ruin, museum, art gallery, church, store;
mastered every language, science, art, literature, custom,
history, and drew maps and plans of everything.  Publications:
Baedekers.  Recreation:  Staying at home.  Ambition:  Tourists.
Residence:  Germany.