Author: Thomas PennantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A Tour in Scotland
Author: Thomas PennantA Tour in Scotland, 1769
Author: Thomas PennantPublisher: Birlinn Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A prolific author, Thomes Pennant's great passion for natural history and the publication of his three volume magnum opus "British Zoology" in 1761 had already brought him membership of the Royal Society and fame, by the time he began the work for which he is now remembered - his two great tours of Scotland and the north of England. Pennant was to write the seminal work of the 18th century. His writing is one of the first major accounts of the Highlands after the suppression of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Pennant's work is more than simply a topography of the country, but represents a desire to introduce a land which was very much "terra incognita" to a southern audience. Although a Hanoverian, it is a measure of his balance and judgement that his writings about a land so recently hostile to that dynasty are so fair and scrupulous. The acutness and range of his observation is almost without parallel for the time, and his work is an invaluable mine of information on the history, tradition, customs and geography of North Britain on the edge of vast and irrevocable change.
A Tour in Scotland 1769
Author: Thomas PennantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
A Tour in Scotland. 1769
Author: Thomas PennantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History and Heritage
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Author: Daniel DefoePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300049800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain
A Tour in Scotland
Author: Thomas PennantA Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198798741
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides form a natural pair for an OWC because both books, often read and taught alongside each other, focus on the Scottish highlands.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Author: Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Includes List of members.
Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland
Author: Benjamin ColbertPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230355064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture.