Drawing on the journals of real travellers, Bates reconstructs what it was like to tour Europe around 1600: the guidebooks and guides, passages by river and sea, Christian and Ottoman Europe, inns good and terrible, highwaymen, money and passports. It is social history told through the people who went abroad to be educated.
An engaging, well-sourced history of early modern travel that delights anyone curious about the ancestors of the Grand Tour. Download the free EPUB.