Pre-Industrial Transportation?

[ellenkushner]

Assured one of my anxious Hollins students that there are web pages that briefly & clearly tell historical/fantasy writers how long it takes to get places on horseback or by carriage (and how it all works).

Am I right?

Comments

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I have seen some charts created for writing Tolkien fanfiction which discuss miles per day by horseback and under what conditions. Here is one, which also contains a link to a paperback published by the same writer on common mistakes writers make relating to horses and travel by horse: http://www.theoriginalseries.com/traveltimes.htm

[jay-of-lasgalen.livejournal.com]

I was going to mention this as well, but two people have already beaten me to it!