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To the highlands in 1786 : the inquisitive journey of a young French aristocrat / [edited and translated by] Norman Scarfe ; with a foreword by François Crouzet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- La Rochefoucauld, Alexandre de.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- French.
- History.
- Highlands (Scotland)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Highlands (Scotland).
- La Rochefoucauld, Alexandre de--Travel--Scotland--Highlands.
- La Rochefoucauld, Alexandre de.
- Travel.
- Scotland.
- Uplands.
- Scotland--Highlands.
- Lazowski, Maximilien de--Travel--Scotland--Highlands.
- Lazowski, Maximilien de.
- French--Scotland--Highlands--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- Third and final installment of the La Rochefoucauld tour of Great Britain. Details their lengthy tour of Scotland, where they experience every kind of hospitality and thoroughly explore Edinburgh and Glasgow, falling under the spell of the country's romantic landscape before returning south. A hugely important contribution to our understanding of the agrarian and industrial revolutions in Great Britain in the eighteenth century. Literary Review a joy to read... plates and illustrations bring the book to life. History Scotland
- Contents:
- Two young Frenchmen, friends of Arthur Young, tour and record Britain's economic landscape, from the Fens to the Moray Firth and the Great Glen
- Home via the Boyne, Dublin and North Wales
- 1. Leaving Home 7
- The Fens in winter from Denver Sluice to Wisbech and Peterborough, where Alexandre was game to climb one of the cathedral towers for the view of Fen landscape
- Great embankments and serried drainage-windpumps
- A drowned landscape drained
- 2. The East Midlands and the Dukeries 16
- Tantalising views of the Fitz William house at Milton, and Burghley House at Stamford
- A spectacular marble in St Martin's, Stamford
- Leicestershire stallions on the Great North Road
- The splendid Angel at Grantham
- Nottingham's new General Hospital
- Thoresby, Clumber, Welbeck and Worksop
- The Roche Abbey idyll
- 3. Ambitious Enterprises: Doncaster to Leeds 40
- Bog-reclamation at Doncaster
- The Walker foundries at Rotherham
- Wentworth Woodhouse and Wentworth Castle
- Leeds, the General Infirmary and the Cloth Halls
- 4. York to Durham 61
- York's walls, castle, Assembly Rooms, Minster and (keeping the best to the last!) Dr Hunter's Asylum
- Harrogate
- The extraordinary beauty of Fountains Abbey
- The cattle of Bakewell's disciples near Northallerton
- Durham's grandeur concealed by fog
- 5. Newcastle to Berwick-upon-Tweed 81
- Newcastle, the coal metropolis, its river and its chaldron-wagons
- Morpeth
- Caucot beside the Coquet
- Alnwick Castle, its battlements and Georgian Gothick decor
- Bamburgh Castle's lifesaving role
- The gig upset in front of the Bluebell Inn in Belford's little market-place
- 6. Berwick to Edinburgh 98
- Berwick on a raw Palm Sunday
- Dunbar on a dangerous coast
- Haddington beautiful, and with fat, clean bullocks
- Insufficiently appreciative of Musselburgh though excited by the Firth, covered with its fishing fleet. Edinburgh at Dunn's Hotel ('every magnificence')
- Castle and Holyrood Palace
- Dine at home with old Adam Smith
- Meet various illuminati
- 7. From the Forth-to the Moray Firth 126
- Blair Adam with larches
- Kinross House
- Perth
- Dundee
- Arbroath
- Montrose
- Aberdeen, New and Old
- Old Meldrum
- Banff
- Nairn
- Dine at Fort George
- 216 miles Perth-Inverness, 9 days without a break
- 8. The Highlands 165
- The military roads
- The length of Loch Ness
- At Fort William, a highland innkeeper
- Portnacroish
- The treacheries of Loch Etive
- Bonawe
- 9. Back in the Lowlands 194
- Inveraray
- Loch Lomond
- Dumbarton
- Glasgow and John Millar
- Inchinnan's 3-way bridge
- Paisley, Johnston, and machine-embroidered gauzes
- Ayr
- Ballantrae, Portpatrick
- 10. Alexandre's General Observations on Leaving Scotland 222
- 11. Homeward Bound 227
- The beauties of Ireland
- 'If only the poor Scots had this land'
- The Boyne valley and Slane
- Dublin and neighbouring country houses
- A heatwave in the Conway valley
- Llansannan, 'un endroit perdu'
- Whitchurch races
- Kidderminster tanneries
- Worcester
- Gloucester
- The Cotswolds
- At Eton, journal's end.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Based on the travel journals of Alexandre de La Rochefouchauld and Maximilien de Lazowski.
- ISBN:
- 0851158439
- OCLC:
- 46937729
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