A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Nonfiction, Travel, Europe, Great Britain, Adventure & Literary Travel
| Author: | Daniel Defoe, Pat Rodgers | ISBN: | 9780141962351 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd | Publication: | August 25, 2005 |
| Imprint: | Penguin | Language: | English |
| Author: | Daniel Defoe, Pat Rodgers |
| ISBN: | 9780141962351 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publication: | August 25, 2005 |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
