A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772

by Thomas Pennant

Book Overview

The naturalist and traveller Thomas Pennant (several of whose other works are reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection) published this account of a journey through Scotland and its islands in 1774. Pennant (1726-98) had already written one account of Scotland, in 1771. (He later claimed that by 'shewing that it might be visited with safety' he had created a tourist boom.) His great enthusiasm was for the Hebrides, and more than half of the book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110807541X
• ISBN13: 9781108075411
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.3" x 11.7"