A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300049800

Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2005-08-25
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0141962356

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.

Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722

Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2023-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3387007027

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.