Exploring European frontiers
Subtitle: British travellers in the Age of Enlightenment
By: Brian Dolan.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: British -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.; Travelers -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Europe -- Description and travel.
Description: "This study examines a range of British travellers' perceptions of Europe and charts their quests to explore and contrast far-flung European frontiers - to Lapland, to the eastern provinces of the Russian empire, the Levant. Using a wide range of eighteenth-century travel accounts, Dolan demonstrates how these narratives were often informed by and designed to address contemporary historical and scientific assessments of the status of modern European civilisation."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-225) and index.