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To the Highlands in 1786 - The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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To the Highlands in 1786 - The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Late-18th-century Scotland comes to life, from coaching inns and
gig upsets to agriculture and Edinburgh society. Fascinating
edition of the travels of two young sprigs of the French
aristocracy in search of the secrets of British commercial,
industrial and agricultural primacy reaches its climax in this
delicious volume... a notable contribution to the topographical and
social history of Britain on the eve of the French revolution.
COUNTRY LIFE [Richard Ollard] The most satisfying book I read in
2002... Connoisseurs of 18th-century travel books will be
enraptured by this diary of a visit to Scotland by a young man from
the great French family of Rochefoucauld and his Polish tutor...
The diary has been translated, edited and annotated by our leading
regional historian, and providesan enormous amount of fascinating
detail about Scotland in the first phase of the Industrial
Revolution. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH [Paul Johnson] In Norman Scarfe's two
earlier books of their travels, Francois and Alexandre de La
Rochefoucauld, with their companion, Maximilien Lazowski, have
earned their place among the most perceptive and lively
commentators on late 18th-century Britain. In this third book,
Alexandre and Lazowski tackle a tougher itinerary, seeing for
themselves Improved farming from the Fens to the Moray Firth and
back via Armagh, Dublin and North Wales, with deviations into
Improved industry and trade, as at Rotherham and Paisley; Improved
hospitals (notably Dr Hunter's at York); and more picturesque
sights such as Fountains Abbey, Edinburgh, the fifty-foot Foyers
Fall near Inverness, the Boyne valley and Llansannan. In Edinburgh
they dined with Adam Smith. In the infertile Highlands, they were
moved by the Highlanders, only lately permitted back into their
plaids and kilts: "all their customs at stake, they faced being a
former people". Through Scarfe's well-attuned translation, we see
these French adventurers for ourselves: the variable hospitality of
the inns ("every magnificence" in Edinburgh; "a dreadful inn" -
with compensations - at Old Meldrum); and the terrifying treachery
of Loch Etive. NORMAN SCARFE's twoprevious volumes of La
Rochefoucauld travels are A Frenchman's Year in Suffolk and
Innocent Espionage, 1785.
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