TOURISTS: HOW THE BRITISH WENT ABROAD (PB)

The end of the Napoleonic Wars opened Europe once again to British travellers. Following in the footsteps of the Grand Tourists a hundred years earlier, the British middle-classes flocked to see the sights. Here the voices of these people - puzzled, shocked, delighted and amazed - are brought vividly to life. From the discomfort of the stagecoach to the 'self-contained pleasure palace' of the beach resort, Lucy Lethbridge brilliantly examines two centuries of tourists' experience and introduces travel titans such as Albert Smith, Henry Gaze, Thomas Cook, and Vladimir Raitz.