Scenery

Guidebooks to ‘the picturesque’: creating a new generation of traveller

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Travel writer, artist, teacher, and reverend, William Gilpin obsessively collected drawings and sketched, and, as a student at Oxford in 1748, self-published ‘A Dialogue upon the Gardens at Stow in Buckinghamshire’. With practical tips for travellers on how they could get the most out of their visits to the country and best enjoy the scenery, … Read more about Guidebooks to ‘the picturesque’: creating a new generation of traveller

Sublime travel scenes

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Sometimes scenery we come across when we travel can be so breathtakingly beautiful that they stop us dead in our tracks and make it hard to move on. It may not even be that the particular scene is something that is always stunning, like a natural landscape, but rather at that minute the play of … Read more about Sublime travel scenes