The social marketplace for new and used books.

Get started

Learn to sell
Learn to buy
Buy textbooks
Sign up
Buy a giftcard
For the authors

Support

Help
Track a shipment
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Cookies policy

Company

About us
Work with us
Give feedback
Categories

Contact us

Fast delivery with

Safe payments by

Visa
Mastercard
Vipps
Klarna

© 2026 Bookis AS

English

  1. Home
  2. Travel writing
  1. Home
  2. Genres
  3. Travel writing
Continental drifter

Paperback • 2002 • English • 1. edition

Continental drifter: taking the low road with the first grand tourist

By Tim Moore

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

About the book

Tim Moore travels through 45 cities in the steps of a larger-than-life Jacobean hero incidentally responsible for introducing forks to England and thus ending forever the days of the finger-lickin'-good drumstick hurlers of courts gone by. Coryate's early 17th-century bawdy anecdotes include being pelted with eggs, pursued by a knife-wielding man in a turban and, finally, being vomited on copiously by a topless woman with a beer barrel on her head. Tim Moore has no trouble keeping up the modern-...Show more

Travel writing

Book details

ISBN

9780349114194

Publisher

Abacus

Published year

2002

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Continental drifter

Format

Paperback

Shippping and returns

Shipping

Used books are shipped by the seller. Expected delivery after package is sent is 2-4 days.

Returns

Contact the seller after delivery.

Reviews · 0

0 Ratings • 0.0 of 5

You might also like

The Roads to Rome A History

The Roads to Rome A History

Catherine Fletcher

Travels with a Brompton in the Cévennes and Other Regions

Travels with a Brompton in the Cévennes and Other Regions

Sue Birley

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain

Ian Mortimer

The Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles

The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain

The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain

Ian Mortimer

Cities & towns

Cities & towns

The lost continent

The lost continent

Bill Bryson

Neither here nor there ; Neither here nor there

Neither here nor there ; Neither here nor there

The Road to Little Dribbling

The Road to Little Dribbling

Bill Bryson

20th Century Travel

20th Century Travel

Allison Silver

Slow Train to Switzerland

Slow Train to Switzerland

Diccon Bewes

Notes from A Big Country

Notes from A Big Country

Bill Bryson

London: A Travel Guide Through Time

London: A Travel Guide Through Time

Mathew Green

The Hundred-foot Journey

The Hundred-foot Journey

Richard C. Morais

The Gentleman's Guide to Travel

The Gentleman's Guide to Travel

Vic Darkwood

You Are Awful (but I Like You) Travels Through Unloved Britain

You Are Awful (but I Like You) Travels Through Unloved Britain

Tim Moore

The Tourist

The Tourist

Dean MacCannell

the grand tour; agatha christie

the grand tour; agatha christie

xx

The old ways

The old ways

Robert Macfarlane

An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

Karl Pilkington

When in Rome 2000 Years of Roman Sightseeing

When in Rome 2000 Years of Roman Sightseeing

Matthew Sturgis

The road home

The road home

Rose Tremain

Travel Writing

Travel Writing

Carl Edward Thompson

The vintage caper

The vintage caper

Peter Mayle

The Time Treveller's Guide to Medieval England

The Time Treveller's Guide to Medieval England

Ian Mortimer

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star : On the Tracks of The Great Railway Bazar

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star : On the Tracks of The Great Railway Bazar

Paul Theroux

The Great Railway Bazaar,

The Great Railway Bazaar,

Paul Theroux

Three Sheets to the Wind

Three Sheets to the Wind

Pete Brown

Journeys of a lifetime

Journeys of a lifetime

The World Travels 1950-2000

The World Travels 1950-2000

Jan Morris

Stand and Deliver! - A History of Highway Robbery

Stand and Deliver! - A History of Highway Robbery

David L. Brandon

Do not pass go

Do not pass go

Tim Moore

Travels with a Tangerine A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

Travels with a Tangerine A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

The World Commuter Great Journeys by Train

The World Commuter Great Journeys by Train

Christopher Portway

Round Ireland with a Fridge

Round Ireland with a Fridge

Tony Hawks

London The Novel

London The Novel

Edward Rutherfurd

Road Fever

Road Fever

Tim Cahill

A Book of Travellers' Tales

A Book of Travellers' Tales

Eric Newby