Tour Through the Whole Isl of - Great Britain

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

• Authors: Daniel Defoe, Defoe D Rogers P, Defoe Daniel, Pat Rodgers, Pat Rogers
• Assisted by: Pat Rogers (Introduction), Rogers Pat (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.1978
• EAN: 9780140430660
• ISBN: 978-0-14-043066-0
• No. of pages: 736
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 41 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Essays, Literarische Essays, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Classic Travel Writing