Name: John Taylor, Travels and Travelling 1616-1653
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Author: John Taylor
ISBN: 9781906978914

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John Taylor, Travels and Travelling 1616-1653

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Physical Book

Author

John Taylor

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Paperback

ISBN13

9781906978914

Synopsis "John Taylor, Travels and Travelling 1616-1653"

John Taylor (1578-1653), known in his lifetime and ever since as the 'Water-Poet', wrote some two hundred pamphlets on every conceivable subject of interest to his contemporaries. A native of Gloucester who became a London waterman, he employed his ebullient wit and facility with words to make a reputation, if not a fortune, from his writing in prose and verse. His descriptions of the fourteen journeys he made between 1616 and 1653 around Britain (and twice to the continent), are not only entertaining to read, but an important source for anyone interested in travel, places and society before, during and just after the Civil Wars. This expanded edition of a work first published in 1999 adds the two foreign adventures and a group of pamphlets describing carriers, coaches, inns and taverns, with brief introductions to each work, annotations and an index of persons and places.