false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179765382m/953376.jpg 953376 6 This book covers Britain in the early eighteenth century. It provides 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. 170780 1974 A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain : Abridged Edition (Penguin Classics) (Penguin Classics) total:7|5:2|4:2|3:2|2:1|1:0| 7 26 16 0 0 0 false false Thu Oct 01 13:51:55 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 13:51:55 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 26 16:20:41 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 16:20:41 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 14:34:05 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 13:16:28 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 14:34:05 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 04:39:35 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 04:39:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 19 11:11:57 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 11:11:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 10 11:37:31 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 11:37:31 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Feb 23 03:15:39 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 03:15:39 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Feb 01 16:42:09 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 16:42:09 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 22 15:14:44 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 15:14:44 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 15 12:45:10 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 12:45:10 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 19 09:37:08 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 09:37:08 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Tue Sep 02 11:11:58 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 11:11:58 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Sat Jul 19 22:42:28 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 22:42:28 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jul 01 14:28:41 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 14:28:41 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Mar 29 22:51:08 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 10:27:13 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 24 22:23:07 -0800 2008 Thu May 22 23:50:07 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=953376