Innocent Espionage: The La Rochefoucauld Brothers' Tour of England in 1785

by François de La Rochefoucauld and Norman Scarfe

Three young Frenchmen vividly record the English economic landscape of the late 18th century.

This book is irresistible. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Ranks with Defoe and Cobbett, and fills the gap between them... in this wonderful book we have a portrait of England at its most beautiful and most vigorous, of Jane Austen'sidyllic countryside and Blake's Satanic mills. NIGEL NICOLSON, SPECTATOR We always have it in stock as it is such a marvellous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851155960
• ISBN13: 9780851155968
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.3" x 6.3"