Pedestrian Tour through the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey
Regular price
€25.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=William Gerard Walmesley
Author_William Gerard Walmesley
Category=SZC
Category=WTH
Channel Islands
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_sports-fitness
eq_travel
Guernsey
Jersey
local history
Phillimore
travel guide
Product details
- ISBN 9780850338379
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 185 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1992
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Walmesley wrote this travellers' guide in 1821, at a time when, just after the Napoleonic Wars, the Channel Islands were becoming known as a quiet retreat for inexpensive retirement and a destination for educated tourists. The text provides contemporary source material for the historian, with penetrating comments on individuals, families, houses, gardens and estates. His own sketches of well-known places are instantly recognisable, despite the changes of the intervening years. The islands are revealed as still essentially rural and largely unspoilt.
