Description
| Product ID: | 9780140430660 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain |
| Authors: | Author: Daniel Defoe |
| Page Count: | 736 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Classic travel writing, Classic travel writing, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| Description: | Covers Britain in the early eighteenth 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1978-05-25 |
