A Tour Through Holland

A Tour Through Holland
Author: John Carr
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2017-09-17
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781528180184

Excerpt from A Tour Through Holland: Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806 Indeed, my Lord it is a felicity to be able to attest, from experience, and now to record, the pretensions of your Grace to the gratitude of your country and the love of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine

A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine
Author: John Carr
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2016-05-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781533290625

A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine by John Carr. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1807 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Literature of Travel and Exploration

Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1425
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135456631

Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.