Visit Scotland: 18th-century style
Stepping Westward: Writing the Highland Tour c.1720-1830
Nigel Leask
Oxford University Press, 2020 Hardcover, £65.00
368 pages
ISBN-13: 9780198850021
When the Napoleonic Wars ruled out tours of mainland Europe a ready-made alternative was to hand in the form of ‘domestic tours’ of the Lake District, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. In the case of Scotland, the prospective traveller had a rich treasury of guides at his (and increasingly her) disposal. Highland tourists could call upon the works of
