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1724
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
736 pages
ISBN: 978-0140430660
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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

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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.

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Title:A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
Author:Daniel Defoe
Series:Non-Fiction Books
Book Number:#5
Published:1724
Pages:736
ISBN-10:140430660
ISBN-13:978-0140430660
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This book is part of the Non-Fiction Books series and is book #5 in the series.