Rural Rides (Two Volumes in One)Cosimo, Inc., 1 dec 2011 - 650 pagina's Son of an innkeeper, former soldier, champion of the working class, early anticorporate activist, and future Member of Parliament-Will Cobbett's unique eye offers us a perspective on 19th-century England we won't find anywhere else. Cobbett roamed Southern England on horseback in the years between 1821 and 1832, gathering his "economical and political observations relative to matters applicable to, and illustrated by, the state of" that charming part of the world, one in the throes of massive change in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. Originally published in two volumes but presented here as one edition, this is an extraordinary record of a world long gone, one very little documented when it existed, by a voice who was far ahead of his time. British journalist and radical WILLIAM COBBETT (1763-1835) published the weekly newsletter Political Register and is also the author of Advice to Young Men (1829), The Progress of a Ploughboy to a Seat in Parliament (1830), Rural Rides (1830), and Cottage Economy (1821). |
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From London through Ware and Royston to Huntingdon | 84 |
From Kensington to Uphusband including a Rustic Harangue | 92 |
Through Hampshire Berkshire Surrey and Sussex | 116 |
From Kensington to Worth in Sussex | 160 |
From Salisbury to Warminster from Warminster to Frome from | 58 |
From Highworth to Cricklade and thence to Malmsbury 80 | 80 |
From Malmsbury in Wiltshire through Gloucestershire Hereford | 100 |
From Ryall in Worcestershire to Berghclere in Hampshire 120 | 120 |
From Berghclere to Lyndhurst in the New Forest 143 | 143 |
From Lyndhurst to Beaulieu Abbey thence to Southampton | 167 |
From Weston near Southampton to Kensington 181 | 181 |
To Tring in Hertfordshire 206 | 206 |
Through the Southeast of Hampshire back through the Southwest | 185 |
Through the Northeast part of Sussex and all across Kent from | 217 |
From Dover through the Isle of Thanet by Canterbury and Faver | 239 |
From Kensington across Surrey and along that county | 265 |
From Chilworth in Surrey to Winchester | 278 |
From Winchester to Berghclere | 292 |
From Petersfield to Kensington I | 1 |
Down the Vale of the Avon in Wiltshire 34 | 34 |
Northern Tour 216 | 216 |
Midland Tour 260 | 260 |
Tour in the West 276 | 276 |
Notes 299 | 299 |
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