Baedeker quotes

For Kings and Governments may err But never Mr Baedeker.

- SirA(lan) P(atrick) Herbert
  'Mr Baedeker, or Britons  Abroad'.

Baedeker is astonishingly enduring; travellers can use nineteenth-century editions with confidence, providing they take some elementary precautions. Many hotels will long since have disappeared, and the prices will be somewhat different, but if Baedeker says'On leaving the tunnel, the best view is on the right', it probably still is, unless somebody has shifted the mountain, and his descriptions of sceneryand where to go to see it at its best are still valid, as ispracticallyall of his potted history.

- (Henry) Bernard Levin
  Hannibal's Footsteps.