Robin Jarvis

“I hope that the examples I have given have gone some way towards demonstrating that pedestrian touring in the later 1780s and…

— Robin Jarvis

“[William] Coxe expresses...both the pedestrian's advantage of complete freedom of movement, and the inspiring effect of the combination of continual change of…

— Robin Jarvis

“We are happy to observe an increasing frequency of these pedestrian tours: to walk, is, beyond all comparison, the most independent and…

— Robin Jarvis

“Travel became distinguishable from pain and began to be regarded as an intellectual pleasur...These factors--the voluntariness of departure, the freedom implicit in…

— Robin Jarvis

“Pedestrianism, [William Bingley] claims, is the most 'useful' mode of travel, 'if health and strength are not wanting.' 'To a naturalist, it…

— Robin Jarvis

“...I shall let [Anne] Wallace put the case herself, at what I think is necessary length: 'As travel in general becomes physically…

— Robin Jarvis

“...moderate social deviance or class non-conformism I have imputed to the first generation of pedestrians. Improved roads, after all, were one of…

— Robin Jarvis

“I walked slowly on, without envying my companions on horseback: for I could sit down upon an inviting spot, climb to the…

— Robin Jarvis

“[Robert] Newell's recommendation of walking is also interesting: 'The best way undoubtedly of seeing a country is on foot. It is the…

— Robin Jarvis