Richard Pococke's Irish Tours

by John McVeagh (Editor)

Bishop Richard Pococke (1704 - 1765) was an obsessive traveller whose journeys into Egypt and the remoter Alps earned him a European reputation. His extensive travels through Ireland from the 1740s to the 1760s included a circuit of the Irish coastline in 1752 and a journey through west Cork and Kerry in 1758. Pococke kept a detailed written record of all his travels. His Irish journals, never before collected, are here published complete for the first time.

245 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1995