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 99
... seat of the noble family of Jermyns , lately Lord Dover , and now of the house of Davers . Here Nature , for the time I was there , drooped , and veiled all the beauties of which she once boasted ; the family being in tears , and the ...
... seat of the noble family of Jermyns , lately Lord Dover , and now of the house of Davers . Here Nature , for the time I was there , drooped , and veiled all the beauties of which she once boasted ; the family being in tears , and the ...
Page 109
... seat of the late Dukes of Manchester , but sold by the present duke 60 to the Duchess Dowager of Bucks ; his grace the Duke of Manchester remov- ing to his yet finer seat of Kimbolton in Northamptonshire , the ancient mansion of the ...
... seat of the late Dukes of Manchester , but sold by the present duke 60 to the Duchess Dowager of Bucks ; his grace the Duke of Manchester remov- ing to his yet finer seat of Kimbolton in Northamptonshire , the ancient mansion of the ...
Page 419
... seats of the gentlemen , and some of the first rank , as particularly the Earls of Gainsborough and Nottingham ; 40 the latter has at a very great expense , and some years labour , rebuilt the ancient seat of Burleigh on the Hill , near ...
... seats of the gentlemen , and some of the first rank , as particularly the Earls of Gainsborough and Nottingham ; 40 the latter has at a very great expense , and some years labour , rebuilt the ancient seat of Burleigh on the Hill , near ...
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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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