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The Flowers Of Celebrated Travellers: Being A Selection From The Most Elegant, Entertaining And Instructive Travels

The Flowers Of Celebrated Travellers: Being A Selection From The Most Elegant, Entertaining And Instructive Travels

Adams, John

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Travel WritingGeneral EuropeGeneral European History

ISBN10: 935450910X
ISBN13: 9789354509100
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.51
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before guidebooks, there were travellers. See Europe as it was. The Flowers of Celebrated Travellers gathers choice extracts from renowned journeys into a travel literature anthology that balances pleasure with insight. In this travel narratives collection, scenes are rendered as european travel sketches: cities, roads, inns, landscapes, and the quick observations that turn mileage into meaning. Expect classic travel writing with the polish of the period and the curiosity of the road - elegant instructive travel essays attentive to foreign customs and manners, and to the little frictions and delights of crossing borders. Chosen to entertain and instruct, the pieces move from sharp description to quiet reflection, mixing a storyteller's pace with a diarist's candour in an age of travel-as-education itself. Compiled in the spirit of eighteenth century travel, these grand tour accounts sit alongside wider currents of classic adventure and exploration, capturing how earlier readers learnt to look at the world. For students of travel history, it is a window onto taste, sensibility, and the beginnings of modern tourism; for the casual armchair traveller, it is a companionable dip-in read that still feels fresh. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this early travel books collection has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure - it belongs on the shelf of classic-literature collectors and makes an ideal armchair traveler gift book for anyone who loves journeys, real voices, and the art of noticing.

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