Name: Continental Drifter

Full name: Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road With the First Grand Tourist

Also published as: The Grand Tour

Author: Tim Moore
Year: 2001
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Humor, Travel, Non Fiction
Cultures: Germany, France

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ISBNs:
9780349114194
0349114196
They stuck their coaches on ride-on, ride off ferries, whisked through France and Italy moaning about garlic and rudeness, then bored the neighbours to death by having them all round to look at their holiday watercolours. Most people associate the Grand Tour with the baggy shirted Byrons of its 19th-century heyday, but someone had to do it first and Thomas Coryate, author of arguably the first piece of pure travel writing, Crudities, was that man. Tim Moore travels through 45 cities in the steps of a larger-than-life Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England and thus ending forever the days of the finger-lickin'-good drumstick hurlers of courts gone by.
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