Celia Fiennes
2009, paperback, 96 pages

Journeying through England on horseback, the intrepid seventeenth-century traveller Celia Fiennes recorded every sight and experience of her adventure in her journal, from a troublesome horse and the challenges of disagreeable landladies to countryside food and the beauty of remote landscapes.

Describing potteries in Staffordshire, cheesemaking in Cheshire and tin miners in Cornwall, her personal writings give an unrivalled glimpse into an England of rich variety.