Le Tour du Monde by Édouard Charton

Le Tour du Monde, a travel journal, is a French weekly published in January 1860. It was also called Le Tour du monde, journal des voyages et des voyageurs (1895-1914). It  was created in January 1860 by Édouard Charton, designer of the picturesque store, and under the auspices of the Hachette Bookshop: every six months, the weekly booklets, sold through the network of railway stations, were collected in one volume, which was offered to him in bookstores. A second series was inaugurated in 1895 under the title Tour du monde, journal des voyages et des voyageurs: much more modern, it reproduces photographic images. It is a weekly that targets a popular readership and devotes its content to travel and exploration. He described in detail most of the great expeditions that marked the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, the last great period of exploration of the globe by Western travelers. About fifty years that cover a period from the discovery of the sources of the Nile, early 1860s, to the conquest of the South Pole, late 1911. It combines texts and illustrations, at the beginning of wood engravings, which were gradually replaced by reproductions of photographs at the end of the nineteenth century.