The Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By (author): "Rupert Christiansen"
Genres:Nonfiction books  History books  Travel books  Victorian books  
Publish Date: 2000
The Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN1856197859
ISBN139781856197854
AsinThe Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Original titleThe Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In vividly readable and often hilarious detail, The Visitors relates the tragi-comic stories of a succession of remarkable foreigners who travelled to Britain in the nineteenth century and left influential marks on all aspects of its culture.