Beschreibung:
The Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. These published letters, journals and books provided British readers with detailed accounts of new and exotic locations and thus engaged the reading public with expansionist enterprises.
Volumes I and II: Letters from France; Helen Maria Williams; Volume III: Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone; A.M. Falconbridge; Volume IV: Original Letters from India; Eliza Fay; Volume V: Letters from the Island of Tenerife, Brazil, Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies; Mrs Kindersley; Volumes VI,;VII and VIII; Italy Lady Morgan