The Mediterranean Passion - Victorians and Edwardians in the South

Informationen zum Autor John Pemble is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, where he taught modern history for twenty years. He has published a wide range of books, articles and reviews dealing with the British in India, nineteenth-century travel, the modern apotheosis of Venice, and the French experience of Shakespeare. In 1987 he was the joint winner of the Wolfson Prize for The Mediterranean Passion no reissued in Faber Finds . Klappentext In Victorian and Edwardian Britain travel became the rage. The middle classes and the aristocracy seemed in a constant flux of arrival and departure! their luggage festooned with foreign labels. The revolution in transport made this possible. This title describes how the British travelled to the South and where they went. Zusammenfassung It could easily be taken to the Mediterranean on a holiday and read with pleasure on a sunny beach or in the shade of a church.' Asa Briggs, Financial Times 'I was impressed not merely by the range of his erudition - historical, cultural, literary, topographical, medical et al.

Product details

• Authors: John Pemble
• Assisted by: Joh Pemble (Editor), John Pemble (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2009
• EAN: 9780571251452
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25145-2
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Social History, TRAVEL / Europe / General, Travel writing