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description: Arthur Young (1741-1820) was an English writer on agriculture economics and social statistics. At the age of seventeen he published a pamphlet On the War in North America and in 1761 went to London and started a periodical entitled The Universal Museum. He also wrote four novels and Reflections on the Present State of Affairs at Home and Abroad in 1759. Young produced around 25 books and pamphlets on agriculture and 15 books on political economy as well as many articles. He was famous for the views he expressed as an agricultural improver political economist and social observer. Amongst his other works are Political Arithmetic (1774) Travels in France (1792) and A Tour in Ireland (1776-1779) (1780).
language: English
title: Arthur Young's Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789
publisher: Dodo Press