{"product_id":"9780571310258","title":"The Mediterranean Passion: Victorians and Edwardians in the South","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The only remarkable thing people can tell of their doings these days is  that they have stayed at home', declared George Eliot in 1869. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn  Victorian and Edwardian Britain travel became the rage. The middle  classes and the aristocracy seemed in a constant flux of arrival and  departure, their luggage festooned with foreign labels. The revolution  in transport made this possible. \u003cb\u003eThe Mediterranean Passion\u003c\/b\u003e  describes how the British travelled to the South and where they went.  Drawing on what these travellers wrote, and what was written for them,  it enriches our understanding of the Victorians and Edwardians by  exploring the medical, religious, sexual and aesthetic dimensions of  their journeys and illuminates an important but neglected aspect of  British social and cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'... combines scholarship  with charm ... It could easily be taken to the Mediterranean on a  holiday and read with pleasure on a sunny beach or in the shade of a  church.' Asa Briggs, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I was impressed not  merely by the range of his erudition - historical, cultural, literary,  topographical, medical et al. - and by the depth of his enquiries into  his subject but by the subtlety and refinement of his prose. He deals  with very elusive, complex and culturally contradictory matters, upon  which few, if any, could arrive at persuasive generalisations; yet he  does so throughout the book, while his conclusion is a marvel of  judgment, excelling even what his preceded.' David Selbourne (author of \u003ci\u003eThe Principle of Duty\u003c\/i\u003e)  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Mediterranean Passion \u003c\/b\u003ewas the joint winner of the 1987 Wolfson Literary Award for History.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106540470512,"sku":"9780571310258","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571310258_p0.jpg?v=1763719219","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571310258","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}