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E-book Title: Voyagers and Voyeurs
Author: Nigel Woodhead
Book Description: A treasure-chest of highlights from the golden age of travel writing. Long before Peter Maybe grumbled his way through A Year in Provence, or Stephen Clarke traced his slippery path through A Year in the Merde, travellers from the English-speaking world were recording their impressions of the curious customs, the strange sights, sounds and smells of France. Complaining about the waiters, the plumbing, admiring the cheeseboards and pretty girls.
With the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the invention of the steam locomotive and steam packboat, European travel, for travel's sake, blossomed into a golden age of Innocents Abroad. The Grand Tour - an era that was abruptly cut short in the trenches of Flanders. Due to its geographic position, its wealth of culture, and the eccentricities of its inhabitants, France always stands out from these journals as zee place to visit...Annotated, humorous highlights from over 200 travel accounts (diaries, journals, collected letters, reports, travel guides) written between 1750 and 1918. Largely English and American authors, including some of the most famous literary figures of the 18th and 19th centuries: Dickens, RL Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Henry James, Trollope, Tobias Smollett, Sterne, Stowe. Plus a colourful and eccentric host of itinerant parsons, amateur antiquarians, well-heeled aristocrats and ladies of independent spirit. A huge read.
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