Description: This is a website devoted to famed travel writer and lecturer Burton Holmes. Biography and business history timeline. Pictures of Holmes at work. Scans of typical brochures and lecture programs. Links to relevant outside websites.
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Burton Holmes invented the travel film lecture. For sixty years he was America's most famous travel showman.
His name is on a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
Who knows anything about Burton Holmes today?