Fascinating edition of the travels of two young sprigs of the French aristocracy in search of the secrets of British commercial, industrial and agricultural primacy reaches its climax in this delicious volume... a notable contribution to the topographical and social history of Britain on the eve of the French revolution. COUNTRY LIFE (Richard Ollard) The most satisfying book I read in 2002... Connoisseurs of 18th-century travel books will be enraptured by this diary of a visit to Scotland by a young man from the great French family of Rochefoucauld and his Polish tutor... The diary has been translated, edited and annotated by our leading regional historian, and provides an enormous amount of fascinating detail about Scotland in the first phase of the Industrial Revolution. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (Paul Johnson) In Norman Scarfe s two earlier books of their travels, Francois and Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld, with their companion, Maximilien Lazowski, have earned their place among the most perceptive and lively commentators on late 18th-century Britain.In this third book, Alexandre and Lazowski tackle a tougher itinerary, seeing for themselves Improved farming from the Fens to the Moray Firth and back via Armagh, Dublin and North Wales, with deviations into Improved industry and trade, as at Rotherham and Paisley; Improved hospitals (notably Dr Hunter s at York); and more picturesque sights such as Fountains Abbey, Edinburgh, the fifty-foot Foyers Fall near Inverness, the Boyne valley and Llansannan. In Edinburgh they dined with Adam Smith. In the infertile Highlands, they were moved by the Highlanders, only lately permitted back into their plaids and kilts: all their customs at stake, they faced being a former people . Through Scarfe s well-attuned translation, we see these French adventurers for ourselves: the variable hospitality of the inns ( every magnificence in Edinburgh; a dreadful inn - with compensations - at Old Meldrum); and the terrifying treachery of Loch Etive. NORMAN SCARFE s two previous volumes of La Rochefoucauld travels are A Frenchman s Year in Suffolk and Innocent Espionage, 1785.

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Author : Norman Scarfe
Pages : 300 pages
Publisher : Boydell Press 2001-10-19
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0851158439
ISBN-13 : 9780851158433

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Fascinating edition of the travels of two young sprigs of the French aristocracy in
search of the secrets of British commercial, industrial and agricultural primacy reaches
its climax in this delicious volume... a notable contribution to the topographical and
social history of Britain on the eve of the French revolution. COUNTRY LIFE (Richard
Ollard) The most satisfying book I read in 2002... Connoisseurs of 18th-century travel
books will be enraptured by this diary of a visit to Scotland by a young man from the
great French family of Rochefoucauld and his Polish tutor... The diary has been
translated, edited and annotated by our leading regional historian, and provides an
enormous amount of fascinating detail about Scotland in the first phase of the
Industrial Revolution. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (Paul Johnson) In Norman Scarfe s two
earlier books of their travels, Francois and Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld, with their
companion, Maximilien Lazowski, have earned their place among the most perceptive
and lively commentators on late 18th-century Britain.In this third book, Alexandre and
Lazowski tackle a tougher itinerary, seeing for themselves Improved farming from the
Fens to the Moray Firth and back via Armagh, Dublin and North Wales, with deviations

4. into Improved industry and trade, as at Rotherham and Paisley; Improved hospitals
(notably Dr Hunter s at York); and more picturesque sights such as Fountains Abbey,
Edinburgh, the fifty-foot Foyers Fall near Inverness, the Boyne valley and Llansannan.
In Edinburgh they dined with Adam Smith. In the infertile Highlands, they were moved
by the Highlanders, only lately permitted back into their plaids and kilts: all their
customs at stake, they faced being a former people . Through Scarfe s well-attuned
translation, we see these French adventurers for ourselves: the variable hospitality of
the inns ( every magnificence in Edinburgh; a dreadful inn - with compensations - at
Old Meldrum); and the terrifying treachery of Loch Etive. NORMAN SCARFE s two
previous volumes of La Rochefoucauld travels are A Frenchman s Year in Suffolk and
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dined with Adam Smith. In the infertile Highlands, they were moved by the Highlanders, only lately permitted back into their plaids and kilts: all their customs at stake, they faced being a former people . Through Scarfe s well-attuned translation, we see these French adventurers for ourselves: the variable hospitality of the inns ( every magnificence in Edinburgh; a dreadful inn - with compensations - at Old Meldrum); and the terrifying treachery of Loch Etive. NORMAN SCARFE s two previous volumes of La Rochefoucauld travels are A Frenchman s Year in Suffolk and Innocent Espionage, 1785. Donwload Here http://myebookpdf.com/?book=0851158439 Download READ book To the Highlands in 1786: The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat (Modern History) (Norman Scarfe ) Online Free Download READ book To the Highlands in 1786: The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat (Modern History) (Norman Scarfe ) Online Free PDFDownload READ book To the Highlands in 1786: The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat (Modern History) (Norman Scarfe ) Online Free KindleDownload READ book To the Highlands in 1786: The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat (Modern History) (Norman Scarfe ) Online Free AndroidDownload READ book To the Highlands in 1786: The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat (Modern History) (Norman Scarfe ) Online Free Full EbookDownload READ book To the Highlands in 1786: The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat (Modern History) (Norman Scarfe ) Online Free FreeDownload READ book To the Highlands in 1786: The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat (Modern History) (Norman
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