The British Abroad: The Grand Tour In The Eighteenth Century - Softcover

Black, Jeremy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750931698 ISBN 13: 9780750931694

Verlag: The History Press, 2003

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Reseña del editor:

Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the 18th century, and here Jeremy Black examines travel on the Continent, the so-called "Grand Tour". He considers not only the standard destinations of France and Italy, but also the Low Countries, Germany, Switzerland and the Balkans. The modes of transport are described in detail, along with the range of accommodation, the food and drink, the pleasures and the hazards of travel, ranging from sex and sensibility to debt and dysentery, as well as the effects of the French Revolution on the British tourist. Jeremy Black includes extensive quotations from eighteenth-century tourist correspondence, including neglected manuscript collections, to build up a vivid and frequently amusing picture of travel experiences of British aristocrats on the continent.

Biografía del autor:

Jeremy Black is professor of history at the University of Exeter. His other books include Walpole in Power, The making of modern Britain and War, past, Present and Future,

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• Verlag: The History Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0750931698
• ISBN 13: 9780750931694
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 412