The British Abroad

Download or read book The British Abroad written by Jeremy Black and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1992 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From sex and sensibility to debt and dysentery, as well as the effects of the French Revolution on the British tourist. In this fascinating book, Jeremy Black reveals the preoccupations, interests and attitudes of the British tourist abroad. Quoting extensively from eighteenth-century tourist correspondence, particularly hitherto uncited manuscript collections, the author conjures up a vivid and frequently amusing picture of the pleasures and predicaments experienced by.