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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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`spirited history...Mullen and Munson have neatly bookended their account into a perfect century'
`Highly entertaining...Aroma is the vital element in this canter through attitudes to abroad.'
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`Highly entertaining...Aroma is the vital element in this canter through attitudes to abroad.'
A marvellous romp through a hundred years of Victorian tourism on the continent.
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- PublisherParagon
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1408459418
- ISBN 13 9781408459416
- BindingPaperback
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