| British Travellers in Holland During the Stuart Period: Edward Browne and John Locke as Tourists in the United Provinces Contributor(s): Van Strien (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004094822 ISBN-13: 9789004094826 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $157.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1993 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Europe - Benelux Countries (belgium Netherlands Luxembourg) - Architecture | Interior Design - General - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 914.920 |
| LCCN: 93002166 |
| Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History |
| Physical Information: 1.38" H x 6.46" W x 9.46" (2.14 lbs) 472 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |