Book description
Nick presents eight of the most interesting traveller-chroniclers to
have explored and reported on the state of the nation. From Gerald of
Wales who embarked on a seven week journey around the wild perimeter of
Wales in March 1188, to HV Morton, the journalist and travel writer who
crossed the length and breadth of England by car in the 1920s. Others
include Celia Fiennes who started her many journeys around Britain on
horseback in the late 1600s at the age of 20, Tudor antiquarian John
Leland, Daniel Defoe, William Cobbett, Thomas Pennant, and William
Gilpin, who travelled through the north of England by boat in 1770.
