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Innocent Espionage The La Rochefoucauld Brothers Tour of England 1785 Hardcover
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- Publication Year
- 1995
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Innocent Espionage: the La Rochefoucauld Brothers' Tour of England in 1785
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Topic
- Geography & Geosciences, Literary Theory, History, Travel Writing
- Item Width
- 156mm
- Number of Pages
- 290 Pages
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This book is irresistible. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Ranks with Defoe and Cobbett, and fills the gap between them...in this wonderful book we have a portrait of England at its most beautiful and most vigorous, of Jane Austen's idyllic countryside and Blake's Satanic mills. NIGEL NICOLSON, SPECTATOR We always have it in stock as it is such a marvellous book. HEYWOOD HILL BOOKSHOP Looking at England in the early months of 1785, covering 20 or even 30 miles a day and making detailed and intelligent notes at night, the two brothers, Francois and Alexandre, and their tutor, saw landscapes still visible today; but the world of the momentous industrial revolution and optimism that, as patriots, they envied, is one we can only envy them for knowing and admire them for recording. Making good use of their time, the group travelled along rutted roads from inn to inn, visiting factories, plunging down mines, exploring dockyards and cathedrals. One is glad that both boys survived the Revolution, but even more remarkable is the survival of their manuscripts, here presented with such scholarship and joy by Norman Scarfe. NORMAN SCARFE best known for his studies of East Anglia, has also edited and translated the earlier travels of the brothers as A Frenchman's Year in Suffolk, 1794(Boydell & Brewer in 1988). There is nothing like the journals of contemporaries to bring into focus...Magdalen bridge and the iron bridge at Coalbrookdale both freshly built, Adam's new furniture gleaming in Kedleston, the Bridgewater canals in full operation, Robert Bakewell in his farm and Priestley in his laboratory...Nowhere have such experiences been more sharply recorded than in the letter-diaries of three intrepid foreigners who travelled this country in 1785 the book ranks in interestwith Defoe and Cobbett, and fills the gap between them...In this wonderful book we have a portrait of England at its most beautiful and most vigorous, of Jane Austen's idyllic countryside and Blake's Satanic mills. One might have expected three young foreigners with such aristocratic connecti.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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Book Title
Innocent Espionage: the La Rochefoucauld Brothers' Tour of England in 1785
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Geography & Geosciences, Literary Theory, History, Travel Writing
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
290 Pages
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234mm
Item Width
156mm
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