A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

Name: A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Brand: Puffin Classics
SKU: 9780140430660-G
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By Daniel Defoe

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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.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

736

Release Date:

1978-05-25

Publication Date:

1978-05-25

Publisher:

Puffin Classics

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0140430660

ISBN13:

9780140430660

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

600 g

Height:

131 cm

Width:

196 cm

Thickness:

47 cm

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