Rural Rides - Volume 2 (Cosimo Classics Travel & Exploration) - Softcover

Cobbett, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596055782 ISBN 13: 9781596055780

Publisher: Cosimo Classics, 2013

Synopsis

I found the working people of Frome very intelligent; very well informed as to the cause of their misery; not at all humbuggered by the canters, whether about religion or loyalty. -from "Salisbury to Highworth, Saturday, 2 September" Son of an innkeeper, former soldier, champion of the working class, early anticorporate activist, and future Member of Parliament-Will Cobbett's unique eye offers us a perspective on 19th-century England we won't find anywhere else. Cobbett roamed Southern England on horseback in the years between 1821 and 1832, gathering his "economical and political observations relative to matters applicable to, and illustrated by, the state of" that charming part of the world, one in the throes of massive change in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. This is an extraordinary record of a world long gone, one very little documented when it existed, by a voice who was far ahead of his time. British journalist and radical WILLIAM COBBETT (1762-1835) is also the author of The Progress of a Ploughboy to a Seat in Parliament (1830).

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About the Author

British journalist and radical WILLIAM COBBETT (1762-1835) is also the author of The Progress of a Ploughboy to a Seat in Parliament (1830).

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Son of an innkeeper, former soldier, champion of the working class, early anticorporate activist, and future Member of Parliament--Will Cobbett's unique eye offers us a perspective on 19th-century England we won't find anywhere else.

Cobbett roamed Southern England on horseback in the years between 1821 and 1832, gathering his "economical and political observations relative to matters applicable to, and illustrated by, the state of" that charming part of the world, one in the throes of massive change in the wake of the Industrial Revolution.

This is an extraordinary record of a world long gone, one very little documented when it existed, by a voice who was far ahead of his time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596055782
• ISBN 13: 9781596055780
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328