Stagecoach Travel

Informationen zum Autor Louise Allen is the author of more than forty historical romances set in the Georgian and Regency period. She is a collector of Regency prints and ephemera, a wide selection of which appear in this book. Klappentext The stagecoach was the travel wonder of its age: passengers could board a fast coach and be shuttled from one end of the country to the other, stopping only in stages to hitch up fresh horses and take a little light refreshment at coaching inns. Though coaches first appeared in the sixteenth century, stagecoach travel reached its heyday between about 1750 and 1850, leading to great improvements in British roads, which in return encouraged faster and expanded services. This book details the routes, proprietors and coaching inns, the customers and why they chose to travel, and also the perils of early road travel, including highwaymen. The legacy of stagecoach travel is also explored, making this an essential introduction. Zusammenfassung Details the routes, proprietors and coaching inns, the customers and why they chose to travel, and also the perils of early road travel, including highwaymen. Inhaltsverzeichnis The First Stagecoaches / The Growth of the Business / Passengers, Booking and Departure / The Coach, its Crew and Horses / On the Road / Inns / Dangers and Accidents / The End of the Road / Further Reading / Places to Visit / Index

Product details

• Authors: Louise Allen
• Publisher: SHIRE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2014
• EAN: 9780747813668
• ISBN: 978-0-7478-1366-8
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 203 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Shire Library; Shire Library
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, TRANSPORTATION / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Transport: general interest