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‘I remember being much amused last year, when landing at Calais,’ wrote Mrs Frances Trollope in her 1835 book, Paris and the Parisians, ‘at the answer made by an old traveller to a novice ... making his first voyage. “What a dreadful smell!” said the uninitiated stranger ... “it is the smell of the continent, sir!” replied the man of experience. And so it was.’
Historians James Munson and Richard Mullen examine just what it was about the smell of the continent that so attracted British travellers in the hundred years from the fall of Napoleon to the outbreak of the First World War. It was the first time in history that the British, en masse, set out to discover Europe. Drawing on contemporary accounts, diaries and letters, Munson and Mullen offer a compelling portrait of the Victorians abroad, many of them convinced that their country was not only vastly superior but also the envy of the world.
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'Pure charm' A.N. Wilson, Reader's Digest
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' A splendid account, much of it rather shameful to us in these more enlightened days of the 18th- and 19th-century Englishman's attitude to Abroad.' --Sunday Telegraph Seven
'well conceived and engaging survey...' --The Guardian
'Much of the humour in this wonderful book comes from the eccentricity of the Brits and their terror of such things as garlic.' --Catholic Herald Ed West
'At every turn the book brims with instructive and humorous anecdotes lifted from the diaries and recollections of travellers enticed to set forth for the continent...'
--Tom Bamford, Eastern Daily Press
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'well conceived and engaging survey...' --The Guardian
'Much of the humour in this wonderful book comes from the eccentricity of the Brits and their terror of such things as garlic.' --Catholic Herald Ed West
'At every turn the book brims with instructive and humorous anecdotes lifted from the diaries and recollections of travellers enticed to set forth for the continent...'
--Tom Bamford, Eastern Daily Press
A marvellous romp through a hundred years of Victorian tourism on the continent
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- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0330448730
- ISBN 13 9780330448734
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