Language and the Grand Tour

Language and the Grand Tour
Author: Arturo Tosi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108487270

Language is still a relatively under-researched aspect of the Grand Tour. This book offers a comprehensive introduction enriched by the amusing stories and vivid quotations collected from travellers' writings, providing crucial insights into the rise of modern vernaculars and the standardisation of European languages.

News from Abroad

News from Abroad
Author: James T. Boulton
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-12-12
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1846317916

The volume gathers together, and allows the reader to explore, the diverse experiences of a group of quite unconnected young, wealthy travellers as they made their way through eighteenth-century Europe towards Rome and conveyed their views by letters to friends and family at home.

Grand Tours and Cook's Tours

Grand Tours and Cook's Tours
Author: Lynne Withey
Publisher: William Morrow
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1997
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

'Grand Tours and Cook's Tours' is the story of intellectuals and the very rich, the not so rich, the infamous and the anonymous seeking adventure and satisfying ways of exploring the world, from the mid-18th century to World War One.