The British Tourists; or Traveller's Pocket Companion, through England

A facsimile reprint of the 1800 edition of "The British Tourists", one of the earliest example of pocket-sized travel guides in England. It features the entries covering various areas of the British Isles, including Scotland, Wales and Ireland. It collects texts by some of the highly reputed eighteenth-century authors.

This is a facsimile reprint of the 1800 edition of The British Tourists, one of the earliest example of pocket-sized travel guides in England.

The entries cover all areas of the British Isles, including Scotland, Wales and Ireland; and this second edition is supplemented with the additional volume for Oxfordshire, Cambridge and London which was omitted from the first edition.

Collecting texts by highly reputed eighteenth-century authors, including Samuel Johnson, Thomas Pennant, and Arthur Young, it became a unique anthology of travel narratives as well as a practical guide.

Published around the period of turn of the nineteenth century, it is a valuable primary source for anyone studying eighteenth-century British culture and the beginning of the new century of travel.

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