F65 Descriptive Tours and Sketches

Quite what is the key distinguishing feature between these and guidebooks is difficult to say - however I will mostly follow Cubbon in his classification.

Online Pages:

Denton Ms Description of IoM 1681
D. Robertson A Tour through the Isle of Man , 1794
J. Feltham A Tour through the Island of Mann, 1797/8 1798
G.Woods An Account of the Isle of Man... 1811
H.A.Bullock History of the Isle of Man ... 1816
D. Wordsworth Journal of a Tour in the Isle of Man 1828
[J Welch] A Six Days' Tour through the Isle of Man 1836
Lord Teignmouth Sketches of the Coast.. 1836
G. Head A Continuation of A Home Tour 1837
Hall Caine Little Man Island 1894

Offline References

A & P. Burton The Green Bag Travellers: Britain's First Tourists London: Andre Deutsch 1978 (ISBN 0-233-96761-3) - gives some account of late 18th travellers and later developmemnt of the tourist industry


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