The grand tour : the European adventure of a continental drifter
The tradition of the Grand Tour was started in 1608 by an English courtier named Thomas Coryate, who walked across Europe, miraculously managed to return home in one piece, and wrote a book about his misadventures. In this work, Tim Moore proves not only that he is Coryate's worthy successor but one of the finest and funniest travel writers working today. Armed with a well-thumbed reprint of Coryate's book, Moore donned a purple plush suit and set off in a second-hand and highly temperamental Rolls-Royce through France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Holland. Like Coryate, Moore possesses an astonishing ability to land himself in humiliating, but funny, predicaments
Print Book, English, 2002, ©2001
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed View all formats and editions
St. Martin's Griffin, New York, 2002, ©2001
374 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
9780312300470, 0312300476
52446942
Originally published as: Continental drifter : taking the low road with the first grand tourist. London : Abacus, 2001