A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great BritainBritain 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. |
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Page 93
... shore of Lincolnshire , they go , I say , N. or still N.N.W. to meet the shore of Holderness , which I said runs out into the sea again at the Spurn ; this they leave also and the first land they make , or desire to make , is called as ...
... shore of Lincolnshire , they go , I say , N. or still N.N.W. to meet the shore of Holderness , which I said runs out into the sea again at the Spurn ; this they leave also and the first land they make , or desire to make , is called as ...
Page 212
... shore , though without a harbour . Here we saw boats all the way on the shore fishing for mackerel , which they take in the easiest manner imaginable . As soon as the boats had brought their fish on shore , we observed a guard , or ...
... shore , though without a harbour . Here we saw boats all the way on the shore fishing for mackerel , which they take in the easiest manner imaginable . As soon as the boats had brought their fish on shore , we observed a guard , or ...
Page 225
... shore , and , which was worse , the cries of those , which were driven on shore by the tempest , and dashed in pieces . In a word , all the fleet , except three , or thereabouts , were dashed against the rocks , and sunk in the sea ...
... shore , and , which was worse , the cries of those , which were driven on shore by the tempest , and dashed in pieces . In a word , all the fleet , except three , or thereabouts , were dashed against the rocks , and sunk in the sea ...
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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain Daniel Defoe,Anthony J. Coulson Limited preview - 1991 |
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