An Oriental Holiday: Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Handbook for the Tourist , 1895

An Oriental Holiday: Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Handbook for the Tourist , 1895 By Henri Moser Henri Moser (in German : Georg Heinrich Moser -Charlottenfels), born May 13, 1844 in Saint Petersburg and died on July 15, 1923 in Vevey, was a Swiss diplomat , orientalist , explorer , art collector and writer. Drawings by Georges Scott. Georges Bertin Scott (10 June 1873 – 10 January 1943) was a French war correspondent and illustrator for the French magazine L'Illustration during the early 20th century. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He produced paintings of the Balkan Wars and the First World War, and also covered and illustrated scenes from the Spanish Civil War and the early Second World War. One of his works, an oil painting of his depicting King Constantine I of Greece during the Balkan Wars hangs in main entry hall of the Presidential Palace in Athens. In 1909 Scott married French singer Nelly Martyl, who served as a nurse during the First World War, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. London : Eustace Cuzon & Co. , 1895. Pp. 76. 23 cm x 14,5 cm The spine of the book is torn, but not a single page is missing and they are in good condition. "Travel writers, most notably Henri Moser whose travel guide An Oriental Holiday (1895) will be closely examined, were imbricated with Austro-Hungarian authorities and regularly employed by the regime to promote this romantic image of Bosnia-Herzegovina to British audiences. This article concludes by demonstrating that the upsurge in touristic interest in Bosnia-Herzegovina was short-lived because of growing political tensions between Britain and Germany but provides a forceful counterpoint to imagological historiography that suggests the imagined geography of the region was defined in entirely negative terms. " "By contrast to these binary categorisations, tourist literature about Bosnia-Herzegovina included both conventional handbooks, notably An Oriental Holiday (1895) by Henri Moser, a Swiss polymath employed by the Austro-Hungarian administration to boost tourism to the country, and literary narratives that recounted the journeys of individual travellers and which promoted the provinces as a destination by drawing the reader’s attention to attractions and improved tourist infrastructure, such as comfortable hotels and reliable road and railway networks built by the Austro-Hungarians. "