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British Travellers in Holland During the Stuart Period: Edward Browne and John Locke as Tourists in the United Provinces

British Travellers in Holland During the Stuart Period: Edward Browne and John Locke as Tourists in the United Provinces

Van Strien, C. D.

Hardcover

Series: Arte E Teologia, Book 42

General EuropeGeneral European HistoryInterior Design

ISBN10: 9004094822
ISBN13: 9789004094826
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 1 1993
Pages: 460
Weight: 2.14
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.46
Language: English
The book is a comprehensive study of British travel in the United Provinces during the Stuart Period and largely based on journals and correspondence never before published.
After a discussion of travel journals and correspondence as a literary genre with conventions of its own, the book focuses on the more concrete activities of the tourist: transport, accommodation and sightseeing. A large number of guidebooks provided the necessary information and helped the tourist to write his observations on Holland and the Dutch.
Letters by Edward Browne (1644-1708), passages from the journal of John Locke (1632-1704) and the financial accounts of the third Earl of Orrery (1670-1703) take the reader through most of the provinces and give a first-hand impression of what travel was like for various categories of tourists in those days.
This book is indispensable for all scholars of Anglo-Dutch relations in this period who are interested in learning about day to day experiences of Britons visiting Holland.

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