Isbn: 9780861403509 - strangers to that land: british perceptions of ireland from the reformation to the famine (ulster editions and monographs) (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Plus. First edition. 1994. xii, 315pp. B&W illustrations. Small (0.5cm) closed tear to bottom edge of unclipped dust jacket front cover. Both the book and jacket are otherwise in excellent condition with no inscriptions, and all contents are tight and clean. "In two parts, covering the periods 1540-1660 and 1660-1850, this volume presents first-hand descriptions of Ireland by English, Scottish and Welsh writers who visited the country, and provides notes on the authors and the historical context of their writings. Among the great range of writers represented are Edmund Campion (visiting in 1570), John Wesley (c.1750), Thomas de Quincey (c.1800), Thomas Carlyle (1849) and Queen Victoria (1870).".…

1994, 315pp. Illustrated. Cloth, with dust jacket. In very good condition. Strangers to that Land is a critical anthology of English, Scottish and Welsh colonists' and travelers' accounts of Ireland and the Irish from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, from the Reformation to the Famine. The anthology consists exclusively of eyewitness descriptions of Ireland given by writers using English who had never been to Ireland before and were seeing the country for the first time. Each extract, where necessary, is set in context and briefly explained. The result is a vivid, continuous record of Ireland as defined and judged by the British over a period of four centuries.…