#This brought to you by the sudden realisation that the main road to Perth in the 1740s DID go along the street my dad lives on | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

the-busy-ghost · 2 years

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That occasional urge to just quit your job, abandon your entire life for six months, and follow a literary character or historical figure’s journey across the country by the original roads they might have taken

#I have so many especially for the eighteenth century #In terms of literary figures Scott's Edward Waverley and Stevenson's David Balfour in Kidnapped spring to mind #Violet Jacob's Flemington too actually since she knew Angus so well #In terms of historical ones obviously recreating Boswell and Johnson's tour would be fun #This brought to you by the sudden realisation that the main road to Perth in the 1740s DID go along the street my dad lives on #But afterr that it didn't go through a lot of the other main villages and somehow goes over the Braes and into Perth by the north #Unlike either the 19th century or modern road #OH speaking of the nineteenth century it woul dbe really cool to follow Jules Verne's narrator from his story about the Underground City #But there are no real ferries on that stretch of the River Forth any more #None of these are favourite literary or historical figures by the way I just think the roads/infrastructure was interesting in their day #reading log

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