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- Title: A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
- Author : Daniel Defoe & Pat Rodgers
- Release Date : January 25, 2005
- Genre: Essays & Memoirs,Books,Travel & Adventure,Europe,Fiction & Literature,Essays,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 8033 KB
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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.