No Particular Hurry

British Travellers in Finland 1830–1917

Nonfiction, History, Scandinavia, European General
Cover of the book No Particular Hurry by Tony Lurcock, CB Editions
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Author: Tony Lurcock ISBN: 9781909585096
Publisher: CB Editions Publication: May 15, 2015
Imprint: CB Editions Language: English
Author: Tony Lurcock
ISBN: 9781909585096
Publisher: CB Editions
Publication: May 15, 2015
Imprint: CB Editions
Language: English

Selected passages from the accounts of nearly thirty travellers, together with Lurcock’s informed and entertaining commentary, chart the varied responses of British writers to the making of modern Finland up to 1917, the year of independence.The book includes a section on the Russian War of 1854–5, which brought the British fleet into the Baltic. Among those whose impressions are recorded here are Bartholomew James Sulivan, who was later to serve as Lieutenant on the Beagle and became a close friend of Charles Darwin, and Arthur J. Evans, who later found fame as the excavator of Knossos.‘Tony Lurock’s rich, enlightening book’ – Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement

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Selected passages from the accounts of nearly thirty travellers, together with Lurcock’s informed and entertaining commentary, chart the varied responses of British writers to the making of modern Finland up to 1917, the year of independence.The book includes a section on the Russian War of 1854–5, which brought the British fleet into the Baltic. Among those whose impressions are recorded here are Bartholomew James Sulivan, who was later to serve as Lieutenant on the Beagle and became a close friend of Charles Darwin, and Arthur J. Evans, who later found fame as the excavator of Knossos.‘Tony Lurock’s rich, enlightening book’ – Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement

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