Author: STRIEN, C.D. van
Title: British travellers in Holland during the Stuart Period - Edward Browne and John Locke as tourists in the United Provinces.
Description: Leiden / New York / Köln, E.J. Brill, 1993. 24.5 x 16 cm. xii,444 pp. Clothbound with dustjacket. With 14 b/w illustrations on plates. - 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. - Good copy

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