Cobbett's Tour in Scotland

1984, hardcover edition, Aberdeen University Press / Pergamon Group. 201 pages. Here is a generous, edited reprint of Cobbett's Tour in Scotland, which first appeared in weekly articles in 1832. They were first published in book form in 1833, and again republished in 1930. Here with a completely new editorial commentary are those parts of his tour recounting his travels in Scotland. "This title offers a vivid and still recognizable picture of those parts of Scotland Cobbett visited in his Tour ... since he was the greatest of our political journalists, there is nothing else in the literature that revives for us the political state of Scotland on the eve of reform."

History

COBBETT, WILLIAM

Europe

Pergamon Pr

William Cobbett, author of Rural Rides, published three years earlier, journeys north and finds, among others,Dunbar: ' a little sea-port apparently made for the express purpose of robbing Scotland of all its produce.';Edinburgh: 'the finest city I ever saw in my life';Glasgow:  'a city of the greatest beauty', with 'the finest, most convenient, and best conducted cattle market';Greenock: 'streets are regular, conveniently wide,' with a very fine harbour, and 'forty of the largest mills that can exist.'; New Milns: 'that public-spirited manufacturing village';Paisley: 'at no place where I have ever been in my life was I ever received with more cordiality'.His acute observations on his physical surroundings are as wide-ranging as his opinions on the social habits and circumstances of his various hosts.

GREEN, Daniel

Rural rides

Travel

Constable

<p>Travel memoirs of the British early-nineteenth-century reformer reveal his appreciation of rural England's splendors and outrage at the poverty and degradation in the cities</p>

Rural Rides

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Penguin Classics

<p>Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching cities and the sufferings of the exploited poor. Ian Dyck's new edition places these lively accounts of rural life in the context of Cobbett's political and social beliefs and reveals the volume as his platform for rural radical reform.</p>

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Penguin Classic

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Advice to young men: And (incidentally) to young women in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters addressed to a youth, a ... husband, a father, and a citizen or a subject

William Cobbett (1763-1835) was (in the words of G. K. Chesterton) 'the noblest English example of the noble calling of the agitator'. His radicalism brought him into conflict with the authorities on many occasions, but he reserved a special kind of venom for politicians like Lord Castlereagh and the Duke of Wellington, for men of letters like the lexicographer Dr. Johnson, and the Fellows of English Colleges, 'who live by the sweat of other people's brows'.

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Cobbett's Tour in Scotland

Cobbett's Tour in Scotland

Rural rides

Rural Rides

Penguin Classics Rural Rides

Advice to Young Men: And (Incidentally to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life, in a Series of Letters Addressed to a Youth, a Bachel)

Cottage economy (Oxford paperbacks)

The English gardener (Oxford paperbacks)

Advice to young men: And (incidentally) to young women in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters addressed to a youth, a ... husband, a father, and a citizen or a subject

A Grammar of the English Language (Oxford Paperbacks)