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Title: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century
Condition: New
Subtitle: The British Abroad
Author: Jeremy Black
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0750931698
EAN: 9780750931694
ISBN: 9780750931694
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Genre: History
Topic: Travel & Transport, Business & Finance
Release Date: 01/07/2003
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 200mm
Item Length: 130mm
Item Width: 10mm
Item Weight: 390g
Release Year: 2003

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