American Quaker in the British Isles The Travel Journals of Jabez Maud Fisher, 1775-1779

In 1775, a young Philadelphia Quaker was sent by his father to gatherdetailed information on business conditions in the British Isles. Fisher'stravels took him throughout Britain and Ireland, even across the EnglishChannel, and the journals that record his observations provide a fascinating anddistinctive commentary on the economic and social life of the time.The travel journals are supplemented by Fisher's cameos of merchants in themajor trading centres, with lists of all the goods handled. Dr Morgan's editionmakes available a text that adds up to a late eighteenth-century version ofDefoe's famous Tour.Fisher, Jabez M. is the author of 'American Quaker in the British Isles The Travel Journals of Jabez Maud Fisher, 1775-1779' with ISBN 9780197260968 and ISBN 0197260969.