{"product_id":"british-travellers-in-holland-during-the-stuart-period-edward-browne-and-john-locke-as-tourists-in-the-united-provinces-9789004094826","title":"British Travellers in Holland During the Stuart Period: Edward Browne and John Locke as Tourists in the United Provinces","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): C. D. Van Strien\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Benelux Countries (Belgium  Netherlands  Luxembourg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is a comprehensive study of British travel in the United Provinces during the Stuart Period and largely based on journals and correspondence never before published.\u003cbr\u003eAfter a discussion of travel journals and correspondence as a literary genre with conventions of its own, the book focuses on the more concrete activities of the tourist: transport, accommodation and sightseeing. A large number of guidebooks provided the necessary information and helped the tourist to write his observations on Holland and the Dutch.\u003cbr\u003eLetters by Edward Browne (1644-1708), passages from the journal of John Locke (1632-1704) and the financial accounts of the third Earl of Orrery (1670-1703) take the reader through most of the provinces and give a first-hand impression of what travel was like for various categories of tourists in those days.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is indispensable for all scholars of Anglo-Dutch relations in this period who are interested in learning about day to day experiences of Britons visiting Holland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Leather","offer_id":47969821687959,"sku":"9789004094826","price":17696.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789004094826.webp?v=1782924481","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/british-travellers-in-holland-during-the-stuart-period-edward-browne-and-john-locke-as-tourists-in-the-united-provinces-9789004094826","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}