Most people associate the Grand Tour with the baggy-shirted Byrons of its 19th-century heyday, but someone did it first and Thomas Coryate, author of arguably t... » 

Most people associate the Grand Tour with the baggy-shirted Byrons of its 19th-century heyday, but someone did it first and Thomas Coryate, author of arguably the first piece of pure travel writing, Crudities, was that man. Tim Moore retraces the Jacobean hero's footsteps - in a Rolls Royce. «