the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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George Anson : A Voyage Round the World

'Since they filled those gaps [in historical and geographical knowledge], classic travel books could produce the same kind of epiphanies as other classic literature. Anson's A Voyage Round the World performed that magic for Alexander Somerville and for the Scottish turnip hoers he read it to'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Somerville      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

George Anson : A Voyage Round the World

'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Park'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: "Jacques", a flax dresser      Print: Book

George Anson : Voyage Round the World

Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

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