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Europe within Reach: Netherlandish Travellers on the Grand Tour and Beyond (1585-1750)
Translated by Diane Webb, By (author) Gerrit Verhoeven
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In Europe within Reach Gerrit Verhoeven traces some sweeping evolutions in the early modern travel behaviour of Dutch and Flemish elites (1585-1750), as the classical Grand Tour was slowly but surely overshadowed by other types of travelling. Leisure trips to Paris, London or Berlin, a cours pittoresque along the Rhine, domestic trips in the Low Countries and a series of other destinations gained ground, while new sorts of travellers cropped up: female and middle-class travellers, domestic servants, children, youngsters and the elderly. Verhoeven does not only trace these evolutions, but also explains why Netherlandish travellers gradually turned into art connoisseurs; why they were spellbound by sites of memory and by rugged landscapes; or why all sorts of fashionable gadgets and thingies were bought on the way.
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Publisher | Brill
Published date | 3 Jul 2015
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 346
Dimensions | 235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 661g
ISBN | 978-9-0042-9271-0
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BISAC | history / europe / general
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