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

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.

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.