Rural Rides

Name: Rural Rides
Author: William Cobbett

by William Cobbett

Cobbett's vivid journal of horseback tours through English countryside, documenting rural life and agriculture

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William Cobbett

English journalist and political agitator whose Political Register was the most widely read radical publication of its era. Rural Rides is a portrait of England's countryside and working poor in the early 19th century. He is one of the great polemicists in the English language.

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