17th 19th century
A01=Louise Allen
Author_Louise Allen
carriage
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NHTB
Category=NL-HB
Category=NL-WG
Category=WGC
Category=WQN
Coach
coaching inn
compact
COP=United Kingdom
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eq_history
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Format=BC
highwaymen
historical
historical travel
history
HMM=210
horse-drawn
IMPN=Shire Publications
introduction
ISBN13=9780747813668
Language_English
legacy
nostalgia
nostalgic
PA=In stock
PD=20131001
pocket
POP=London
Price=€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
retro
roads
seventeenth eighteenth
Subject=History
Subject=Transport: General Interest
vintage transport
WG=150
WMM=149
Product details
- ISBN 9780747813668
- Weight: 166g
- Dimensions: 142 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The stagecoach was the travel wonder of its age: passengers could board a fast coach and be shuttled from one end of the country to the other, stopping only in stages to hitch up fresh horses and take a little light refreshment at coaching inns. Though coaches first appeared in the sixteenth century, stagecoach travel reached its heyday between about 1750 and 1850, leading to great improvements in British roads, which in return encouraged faster and expanded services. This book details the routes, proprietors and coaching inns, the customers and why they chose to travel, and also the perils of early road travel, including highwaymen. The legacy of stagecoach travel is also explored, making this an essential introduction.
Louise Allen is the author of more than forty historical romances set in the Georgian and Regency period. She is a collector of Regency prints and ephemera, a wide selection of which appear in this book.
