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A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772 (Paperback)
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A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
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The naturalist and traveller Thomas Pennant (several of whose other
works are reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection) published
this account of a journey through Scotland and its islands in 1774.
Pennant (1726 98) had already written one account of Scotland, in
1771. (He later claimed that by 'shewing that it might be visited
with safety' he had created a tourist boom.) His great enthusiasm
was for the Hebrides, and more than half of the book describes his
voyage around the islands, though he was frustrated by bad weather
in getting to Staffa. He transcribes instead an account by Sir
Joseph Banks, who had visited in the same year, and in his preface
he acknowledges the researches and notes on particular places which
had been provided by friends and correspondents. This is a genial
account of the history, environment and people of a region still
exotic to many Britons."
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