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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 24 pages. This article surveys Richard Franckâs Northern Memoirs, a curious blend of travel narrative, philosophical musing, and angling lore, written in 1658 and published in 1694. Franck, a Cromwellian trooper and self-styled âPhilanthropus,â recounts his journeys through Scotland and northern England in a style both florid and fragmentary. The reviewer highlights Franckâs enthusiasm for rivers especially the Trent, his erratic syntax, and his fondness for riddles, digressions, and theological speculation. The memoir is framed as a dialogue and includes a companion treatise on fishing. The article treats the work as a literary oddity: part antiquarian curiosity, part personal confession, and part topographical scrapbook, offering glimpses of seventeenth-century Britain through a singular and restless mind. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Retrospective Review; Special Interest. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.