author
E. S. (Ernest Stuart) Bates
1876–1944
Best known for Touring in 1600, this English writer explored the history of travel, translation, and autobiography with a lively curiosity. His books range from literary criticism to cultural history, showing a mind drawn to how people read, write, and move through the world.
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Touring in 1600: A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education
by E. S. (Ernest Stuart) Bates
About the author
Active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, E. S. Bates published as Ernest Stuart Bates and is associated with a body of nonfiction that blends scholarship with readability. Library and authority records identify him as E. S. (Ernest Stuart) Bates, 1876–1944.
His best-known work is Touring in 1600: A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education, first published in the early 1910s and still remembered by readers interested in the history of travel. Other works linked to him include Modern Translation, Inside Out: An Introduction to Autobiography, Soviet Asia: Progress and Problems, and Intertraffic: Studies in Translation.
Taken together, these titles suggest a writer deeply interested in literature, language, and cultural exchange. Even when writing about earlier centuries, he seems to have cared most about how ideas travel between people, places, and books.