The Suffolk Traveller

The Suffolk Traveller

John Kirby

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2021
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Literatura de viajes
ISBN:
9789354446849
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Step into Suffolk before the railways. Suffolk emerges in meticulous detail. John Kirby’s The Suffolk Traveller is an antiquarian travel guide facsimile of one of the earliest and most important surveys of historic Suffolk county. Part road-book, part historic county gazetteer, it brings together English road distances, routes between market towns, and clear village and parish descriptions that still illuminate Suffolk local history today. Calm, precise and often unexpectedly vivid, Kirby’s observations create a remarkably complete Suffolk travel guide for anyone curious about how the county looked and moved in Georgian era England. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector’s item and a cultural treasure. Long prized as a resource for genealogists and a trusted reference for local historians, The Suffolk Traveller sits naturally beside Defoe Tour Great Britain and other classics of English road-writing, and deserves a place in every serious English county history collection. Whether you are tracing a family name through lost hamlets, exploring old coaching routes on the ground, or simply reading your way across the landscape, this enduring portrait of historic Suffolk county offers a rare, authentic window into the past.

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