Discovering the Footsteps of Time

Traces the history of geological travel writing about Scotland across the historical periods of the Scottish Enlightenment and British Romanticism Discovering the Footsteps of Time probes the development of a distinctively Scottish tradition of geological travel writing from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century. The tradition tracks a fertile interaction of scientific and aesthetic themes, mediated through literary techniques, which highlights the emergence of ‘Romanticism’ as such; a dis