Download or read book Geographies of the Romantic North written by A. Byrne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790–1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a Northern nation, and key in unifying the expanding North Atlantic empire.