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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe

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 Great 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 Great Britain.

Uses the original Defoe text illustrated with stunning copies of18th century paintings, engravings etc of the places in Great Britain visited and written about by Defoe. Based on the Yale abridged edition of 1991.

Features;

• Folio Society First Edition No.1282
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2006
• Quarter Black with Green Cloth Sides Hardback, 524 pp
• With paintings, maps, prints and documents
• Size 260 x 190mm, 2.4kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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