John Locke and Travel Writing

This book offers an exciting array of contributions to the study of Locke's own study of travel literature. The importance of its vast topic was acknowledged from the beginning of serious secondary writing about him. Lord Peter King, in his Life of John Locke (1829), remarked that Locke "e;employed his leisure in reading books of travels, of the best of which he was a great admirer."e; This book, ...