Travelogue of the seventeenth-century backpacker whose journey to Italy kick-started Britain's taste for European travel. Thomas Coryate's cult backpacking tour of seventeenth-century Europe has been a continuous source of inspiration for travellers, most recently Tim Moore who traced his footsteps in Continental Drifter (Abacus 2001). Exposing Coryate as the first gay culture vulture, Moore enjoys Coryate's opinionated interest in local methods of execution, art, devastation wreaked by raging continental civil wars, or in picking a religious fight. Coryate's Crudities are the travelogue of the first backpacker roughing it in Europe, offering a priceless insight into the character of the French, Italians, British, and not least of all his own.
- ISBN10 1903933048
- ISBN13 9781903933046
- Publish Date 31 December 2019 (first published 22 April 2010)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gibson Square Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English