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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (Paperback, 1)
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A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (Paperback, 1)
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List price R482
Loot Price R443
Discovery Miles 4 430
You Save R39 (8%)
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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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