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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (English Library) Book

Covers Britain in the early eighteenth century.Read More

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  • Foyles

    Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour (1724-6) is an invaluable source of social and economic history. But this book is far more than a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution, for Defoe possessed a wild, inventive streak that endows his work with astonishing energy and tension, and the Tour is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world. By employing his skills as a chronicler, a polemicist and a creative writer keenly sensitive to the depredations of time, Defoe more than achieves his aim of rendering 'the present state' of Britain.

  • 0140430660
  • 9780140430660
  • Daniel Defoe, Pat Rodgers
  • 25 August 2005
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 736
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