Przewodniki tatrzańskie Walerego Eljasza-Radzikowskiego w oczach dziennikarzy epoki oraz współczesnych humanistów
Walery Eljasz-Radzikowski’s Tatra Guidebooks in the Eyes of Journalists of the Epoch and Contemporary Humanists

Summary/Abstract: The paper considers reception of Illustrowany przewodnik do Tatr, Pienin i Szczawnic byWalery Eljasz-Radzikowski, which was published six times in the years 1870–1900. The respective editions of the work have ranked highly within the tour guide genre as well as belong to the most interesting Polish publications of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The analysis involves assessments that appeared in the Warsaw, Lviv, Saint Petersburg and Dresden press of the period, as well as those from the archival sources kept at the Zofia Radwańska-Paryska and Witold Henryk Paryski Tatra Documentation Centre of the Tatra National Park, the Jagiellonian Library, and the Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The authors of reviews and opinions were recognized journalists of the times of the partitions of Poland and the Second Republic, including outstanding Tatra experts as well as contemporary historians, literary scholars, museologists, ethnographers, sightseers, and bibliophiles. A number of statements of Walery Eljasz-Radzikowski himself related to the guide and its various editions have been also taken into account, providing for a more complete picture of both the publication as such and the process of its creation.

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