Publisher's Synopsis
Presents travel writings from the 1790s to the 1990s in the form of accounts by 37 intrepid travellers, among them: Melasina Trench who kept a journal of her visit to Germany in 1799-1800, and Rosita Boland's story of hitchhiking by herself around Ireland's coast in the 1990s. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland,