Bøker av Arthur Young

Arthur Young was born in 1741, the son of a clergyman, at Bradfield, in Suffolk.He was apprenticed to a merchant at Lynn, but his activity of mind caused him to be busy over many questions of the day.He wrote when he was seventeen a pamphlet on American politics, for which a publisher paid him with ten pounds' worth of books.He started a periodical, which ran to six numbers. He wrote novels.When he was twenty-eight years old his father died, and, being free to take his own course in life, he would have entered the army if his mother had not opposed. He settled down, therefore, to farming, and applied to farming all his zealous energy for reform, and all the labours of his busy pen.In 1768, a year before his father's death, he had published "A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales," which found many readers.

Originally published in 1925, this book contains the edited text of Arthur Young's eighteenth century travelogue A Tour In Ireland. Young records his journey all around the country, as well as making observations on Irish life under English dominion after the Cromwellian and Williamite wars.

This work was first published in 1793 by the agricultural expert Arthur Young (1741-1820). In addition to farming, he describes the scenery, roads, inns, manners, and - more significantly - examples both of wealth and poverty. Despite describing some servants he encountered in an inn as 'walking dunghills', he was acutely aware of the grinding poverty of the rural poor, noting the excesses of the ruling class, and ascribing to bad government the striking differences he found between the lives of working people in France and England. Hearing of the fall of the Bastille whilst in Strasbourg, he recognised it as presaging either a new constitution or 'inextricable confusions and civil war'. This centennial edition includes an account of recent journeys made by the editor, noting the changes seen since Young's original work. The work remains one of the most fascinating and valuable sources for understanding the conditions of pre-revolutionary rural France.

A passionate farmer, Arthur Young (1741-1820) was also a prolific and effective writer. First published in 1771, this work went through ten editions in the author's own lifetime. This edition, from 1804, contains additional notes on agricultural improvements developed in the decades since the book's original publication.

First published by Cambridge in 1929, this volume contains selections from Travels in France by Arthur Young (1741-1820), a renowned English writer on agriculture, economics, and social statistics. These first-hand descriptions of public affairs and working conditions provide an unrivalled document of this critical moment in French history.