Libro John Taylor, Travels and Travelling 1616-1653 De John Taylor

portada John Taylor, Travels and Travelling 1616-1653

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

John Taylor

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781906978914

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Reino unido
La restauración y la etapa final de los estuardo - 1660-1714
Historia de europa

John Taylor, Travels and Travelling 1616-1653

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John Taylor (1578-1653), known in his lifetime and ever since as the 'Water-Poet', wrote some two hundred pamphlets on every conceivable subject of interest to his contemporaries. A native of Gloucester who became a London waterman, he employed his ebullient wit and facility with words to make a reputation, if not a fortune, from his writing in prose and verse. His descriptions of the fourteen journeys he made between 1616 and 1653 around Britain (and twice to the continent), are not only entertaining to read, but an important source for anyone interested in travel, places and society before, during and just after the Civil Wars. This expanded edition of a work first published in 1999 adds the two foreign adventures and a group of pamphlets describing carriers, coaches, inns and taverns, with brief introductions to each work, annotations and an index of persons and places.