Europe within Reach : Netherlandish Travellers on the Grand Tour and Beyond (1585-1750) / by Gerrit Verhoeven ; translated by Diane Webb.

Anders reizen. English

Leiden : Brill, [2015]

x, 335 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm

Egodocuments and history series, 1873-653X ; volume 9

Transl. by Diane Webb. 0In 'Europe within reach' Gerrit Verhoeven traces some sweeping evolutions in the early modern travel behaviour of Dutch and Flemish elites (1585-1750), as the classical Grand Tour was slowly but surely overshadowed by other types of travelling. 0Leisure trips to Paris, London or Berlin, a cours pittoresque along the Rhine, domestic trips in the Low Countries and a series of other destinations gained ground, while new sorts of travellers cropped up: female and middle-class travellers, domestic servants, children, youngsters and the elderly. 0Verhoeven does not only trace these evolutions, but also explains why Netherlandish travellers gradually turned into art connoisseurs; why they were spellbound by sites of memory and by rugged landscapes; or why all sorts of fashionable gadgets and thingies were bought on the way.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-329) and index.

Egodocuments and history series ; . 9.

Netherlands.

D915 .V4713 2015