Of London (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture)

In 1790, the naturalist and traveller Thomas Pennant (1726–98) compiled the observations 'of perhaps half my life' from visiting and walking through London. Beginning with an account of primitive Britain, Pennant ambles chronologically and geographically across the capital, peeling back layers of architecture to reveal the tiny colony originally enclosed by a three-mile wall. His thoroughness and vivacious prose bring to life many fascinating characters and controversies behind the city's great buildings, from the Tower of London to Westminster Abbey. In his playful autobiography, The Literary Life of the Late Thomas Pennant, Esq. (1793), also reissued in this series, Pennant says Of London was received with 'utmost avidity' by contemporary readers. Even James Boswell, a sceptic of Pennant's style, praised it highly. Pennant's other travelogues include The Journey from Chester to London (1782) and A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides (1784), both reissued in this series.
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An aparitie	2015
Autor	Thomas Pennant
Editura	Cambridge University Press
Format	Paperback
ISBN	9781108078863
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	484