Williams W.H.A.:
Tourism, Landscape, And The Irish Character
British Travel Writers In Pre-Famine Ireland
University Of Wisconsin Press (United States), 2008
Hardback, 304 pages
Size: 229x152 mm
ISBN: 9780299225209
ISBN-10: 0299225208
Tourism, Landscape, And The Irish Character
British tourists in Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries were both charmed and repulsed. The Ireland they experienced did not fit their British sense of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. This work provides the moral judgments British observers made about the Irish countryside and its native inhabitants.

