James Plumptre's Britain: The Journals of a Tourist in the 1790's

by John Julius Norwich (Preface), Ian Ousby (Editor), James Plumptre (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $4.37

  James Plumptre was an Evangelical clergyman and Cambridge don who, between the ages of 19 and 29, made several tours of Britain. ( Journal of a Tour Through Part of North Wales , 1792; Journal of a Tour into Derbyshire , 1793; Journal of Pedestrian Tour by the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire to the Lakes and Home Thro Part of North Wales in the Year 1799 ; A Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Some Parts of Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland to the Highlands of Scotland and Home by the Lakes and some Parts of Wales in the Summer of 1799 ; Memorandums Taken During a Five Weeks Tour in the Summer of 1800 ; Journal of a Tour to the Source of the River Can in July 1800). This book contains an edited selection of his accounts of these journeys, which offers a reminder of life in Britain 200 years ago.