The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Romantic Coastal Journeys Through Historic Shores, Seaside Resorts, and EngravingsBy W. Finden
Length10h 56m
About this audiobook
The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain presents Britain through the intersecting lenses of maritime commerce, coastal travel, and picturesque landscape. Combining descriptive prose with engraved views, it surveys working ports and harbours alongside fashionable seaside resorts and notable coastal scenery, making geography legible as both economic infrastructure and aesthetic experience. Its literary manner belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of illustrated topographical and travel literature: informative, observant, and rich in visual detail, yet attentive to historical associations and the changing character of Britain's shores. The book thus records a nation shaped by shipping, tourism, technological improvement, and the expanding culture of scenic appreciation. W. Finden is associated with the Finden family's influential work in British engraving and illustrated publication. The name carried particular authority in an age when steel-engraved views transformed travel books into objects of both instruction and visual pleasure. This volume reflects that milieu, when improved transport, the growth of coastal resorts, and the expansion of print culture encouraged readers to encounter distant places imaginatively, even before visiting them. Its attention to both utilitarian harbour works and picturesque prospect reveals the period's characteristic blend of industrial modernity and romantic antiquarianism. This book will reward readers interested in Victorian visual culture, maritime history, British geography, travel writing, and the development of seaside tourism. It is especially valuable as a historical document: not merely a catalogue of places, but a record of how nineteenth-century Britain represented its coast, its commerce, and its landscapes to an increasingly mobile and visually oriented public.
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GenreTravel
Length10 hrs 56 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 13, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain (Annotated)
2Volume 1
3TYNEMOUTH LIGHTHOUSE AND PRIORY.
4LONDON: THE BRIDGES OF LONDON, SOUTHWARK, AND BLACKFRIARS, FROM THE SURREY SIDE.
5HARWICH.
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6YARMOUTH.
7YARMOUTH QUAY.
8YARMOUTH, WITH NELSON'S PILLAR, (FROM THE LOWESTOFT ROAD).
9CROMER.
10KINGSTON-ON-HULL.
11BURLINGTON QUAY.
12FLAMBOROUGH HEAD.
13SCARBOROUGH.
14WHITBY.
15WHITBY, FROM THE NORTH-WEST.
16ROBIN HOOD'S BAY.
17HARTLEPOOL.
18SUNDERLAND, THE LIGHTHOUSE ON THE SOUTH PIER.
19SUNDERLAND. THE BRIDGE FROM THE WESTWARD.
20SHIELDS. ENTRANCE TO THE HARBOUR.
21NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.
22BLYTH.
23TYNEMOUTH. VESSEL ON THE ROCKS.
24CULLERCOATS.
25DUNSTANBROUGH CASTLE, FROM THE EASTWARD.
26DUNSTANBROUGH CASTLE. MOONLIGHT.
27BAMBROUGH CASTLE. FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.
28BAMBROUGH CASTLE.
29CASTLE OF HOLY ISLAND, AND LINDISFARN ABBEY
30CASTLE OF HOLY ISLAND. FROM THE WESTWARD.
31BERWICK. FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.
32LEITH.
33NEWHAVEN.
34DUNDEE. ENTRANCE TO THE PORT.
35DUNDEE. FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE TAY.
36THE ABBEY OF ARBROATH.
37MONTROSE.
38DUNNOTTAR CASTLE.
39STONEHAVEN.
40ABERDEEN. GENERAL VIEW.
41ABERDEEN, FROM ABOVE THE CHAIN BRIDGE.
42ABERDEEN LIGHTHOUSE.
43SLAINES CASTLE.
44THE BULLER OF BUCHAN.
45PETERHEAD.
46MACDUFF.
47BANFF.
48PORT GLASGOW.
49GREENOCK.
50THE BROOMIELAW, GLASGOW.
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