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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Daniel Defoe Pat Rodgers. of the county , have been saved out of the River Thames , and out of the sea , where the river is wide enough to be called so , begin here . From hence eastward , growing wider and wider , till we come beyond ...
Daniel Defoe Pat Rodgers. of the county , have been saved out of the River Thames , and out of the sea , where the river is wide enough to be called so , begin here . From hence eastward , growing wider and wider , till we come beyond ...
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... river at a time , yet they never want a market . The brokers , or buyers of these coals , are called crimps , for ... Thames . As to the building part , I will not say , but that there may be more vessels built at Schedam , and the parts ...
... river at a time , yet they never want a market . The brokers , or buyers of these coals , are called crimps , for ... Thames . As to the building part , I will not say , but that there may be more vessels built at Schedam , and the parts ...
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Daniel Defoe Pat Rodgers. River Thames . This brings me to mention the Vale of Ayles- bury ; which is eminent for the richest land , and perhaps the richest graziers in England . But it is more particularly famous for the head of the River ...
Daniel Defoe Pat Rodgers. River Thames . This brings me to mention the Vale of Ayles- bury ; which is eminent for the richest land , and perhaps the richest graziers in England . But it is more particularly famous for the head of the River ...
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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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