[posted] Posted(#64203, Bennett)
David Price
ccx074 at pglaf.org
Sun Jan 3 03:26:03 PST 2021
The Pedestrian's Guide through North Wales, by George John Bennett 64203
[Ill.: Alfred Clint]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/6/4/2/0/64203 ]
[Files: 64203-0.txt; 64203-h.htm]
For those wishing to know: Bennett wrote this book about a walking tour of
Wales he undertook in 1837. Unlike guide books for Wales upto this point,
this took a far more chatty and down to earth approach and so reveals
quite a bit about Wales at the time. Fourteen years later he changed the
book in many ways, producing the Tourist's Guide through North Wales - by
1853 the railways had started to develop, there were better coaching
routes etc., so people weren't so keen on walking...
All the best,
David,
Overcast but dry England
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