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British Travellers in Holland During the Stuart Period Edward Browne and John Locke As Tourists in the United Provinces - Publications of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute, Leiden New Series
Author: C. D. Van Strien, C.D. Van Strien

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 t...  more »ourist: 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.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9789004094826
ISBN-10: 9004094822
Publication Date: 8/1997
Pages: 444
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Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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