A tour through the whole island of Great Britain
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-17311971
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Total copies: 1
This text presents an introduction to Britain in the early 18th century. 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.
Main title:
A tour through the whole island of Great Britain / Daniel Defoe ; abridged and edited, with an introduction and notes, by Pat Rogers.
Imprint:
Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1971.
Collation:
[1],730p. : 1facsim., 1map, 1port. ; 19cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Full ed. originally published, in 3 vols, London: G. Strahan [and others], 1724-1727.Bibliographyp.40. _ Includes index.
ISBN:
9780140430660 (pbk)
Dewey class:
914.20471914.1047
LC class:
DA620
Language:
English
BRN:
308734