Abstract
ABSTRACT When Murray’s first Swiss guidebook came out in 1838, its section dedicated to the Rigi-Kulm, one of the most popular sites of a Swiss tour at the time, summarised existing information about the summit and its inn, giving a detailed description of what tourists could expect. It noted that the Rigi-Kulm Inn was one of three places in Switzerland known for its visitors’ books, and included a poem, allegedly quoted from the inn album, which subsequently gained its own fame by circulating in print. This article attempts to understand the role of the visitors’ book by highlighting the intertextuality between the entries in the visitors’ books, the guidebooks and the travelogues, and by discussing how these prefiguring texts influenced British tourists in their quest for authenticity at the Rigi-Kulm.
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