354 pages. Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the 18th century and in this scholarly, yet accessible study, the author examines travel on the Continent, the so called Grand Tour. It describes in detail the modes of transport, the range of accommodation, the food and drink, the pleasures and 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. Author builds up a vivid and frequently amusing picture of the travel experience of British aristocrats on the Continent.

Grand Tour In the Eighteenth Century (Sandpiper Reprints of Sutton Publishing Editions)

Travel

BLACK, JEREMY

Europe

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The first English translation of an important Latin text by the 13th century chronicler Mathew Parsis. A valusable, previously inaccesible source, it documents the life and canonization of St. Edmund of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury 1233-40, and the first teacher at Oxford about whom anything is known.

Life of St Edmund (Sandpiper Reprints of Sutton Publishing Editions)

Matthew, Paris

Religion & Spirituality

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