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Article: The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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Travel books and books describing a nation's daily life have been for millennia one of mankind's favourite reading. Indeed, they are often two sides of the same coin. Herodotus, still regarded as the `father of history' was as much a `travel writer' as an historian and the travel books of one century become the raw, and sometimes invaluable, material for historians in another. William Harrison was an Elizabethan parson and church official and he occupied an important, if minor, place in sixteenth century English life. He had an inquiring mind and studied history as well as theology. He followed the mediaeval pattern and began a Chronology of world history which he left ...
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