Focus on History
About the Book Series
Focus on History is a series of Routledge Focus titles, for topics where there is too much material for a journal article, but not enough for a full-length book. Each book contains between 20,000 and 50,000 words (including notes and references).
Before Departure: Travel Preparations in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
Forthcoming
By Alun Withey
February 03, 2027
This book is the first sustained study of an often overlooked, yet vital, part of the practice of travel in the past: the ways in which people prepared, both physically and psychologically, before a journey. Paradoxically, one of the most important stages of travel was also one of the least ...