Author: SCARFE, NORMAN.
Title: To the Highlands in 1786. The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat.
Description: Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2001. 0851158439. 1st edition. Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld with his companion Maximilien Lazowski, see for themselves "Improved farming from the Fens to the Moray Firth and back via Armagh, Dublin and North Wales, with deviations into Improved industry and trade, as at Rotherham and Paisley; Improved hospitals (notably Dr Hunter's at York); and more picturesque sights such as Fountains Abbey, Edinburgh, the fifty-foot Foyers Fall near Inverness, the Boyne valley and Llansannan. In Edinburgh they dined with Adam Smith." Pp.xxiv/276, frontispiece and title page illustrations + 71 further black & white illustrations + 2 maps. Blue cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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