The British Abroad is illustrated throughout with a superb collection of photographs and maps, many previously unpublished. This book will appeal to anyone inte

A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of t

Jeremy Black builds up a vivid and often amusing picture of the travel experiences of the aristocracy before the age of mass tourism. The British Abroad describ

This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects