A Pedestrian Tour through the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey

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• William Gerard Walmesley

Parameter

• Hobby & Freizeit
• Karten & Reisen
• Reisen & Wandern

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Walmesley wrote this travellers' guide in 1821, at a time when, just after the Napoleonic Wars, the Channel Islands were becoming known as a quiet retreat for inexpensive retirement and a destination for educated tourists. The text provides contemporary source material for the historian, with penetrating comments on individuals, families, houses, gardens and estates. His own sketches of well-known places are instantly recognisable, despite the changes of the intervening years. The islands are revealed as still essentially rural and largely unspoilt.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Einband: Paperback