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.
TOUR THROUGH THE WHOLE ISLAND OF GREAT BRITAIN
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Daniel Defoe (c.1660-1731), one of the most famous writers in English literature, was born in London, the son of James Foe, a butcher. It was Daniel who changed his name to De Foe or Defoe in about 1705. He was interested in politics and opposed King James II. After the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and William III was on the throne, Defoe became one of his personal friends. He became a writer for the government and a satircal writer on various social issues of the time. He turned to full time writing after hearing the inspirational story of a sailor who was rescued after living alone on a desert island in the Pacific, the result being his first novel ROBINSON CRUSOE. Several other adventure stories followed, including MOLL FLANDERS.
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I began my travels, where I purpose to end them, viz. at the city of London, and therefore my account of the city itself will come last, that is to say, at the latter end of my southern progress; and as in the course of this journey I shall have many occasions to call it a circuit, if not a circle, so I chose to give it the title of circuits, in the plural, because I do not pretend to have travelled it all in one journey, but in many, and some of them many times over; the better to inform my self of every thing I could find worth taking notice of. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
very fine stone bridge, stately stone bridge, very great trade, good burthen, considerable manufacture, noble harbour, decayed town, great manufacture, very great quantity, agreeable town, noble seat, seamen call Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King James, King Charles, Great Britain, King Henry, King William, Queen Elizabeth, King Edward, Act of Parliament, Sir John, Sir William, Lord Mayor, Queen Mary, North Riding, River Trent, Sir Christopher, West Riding, East Riding, Firth of Clyde, King George, Prince of Wales, River Dee, William the Conqueror, Winterton Ness, Duke of Marlborough, Duke of Monmouth New!
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I began my travels, where I purpose to end them, viz. at the city of London, and therefore my account of the city itself will come last, that is to say, at the latter end of my southern progress; and as in the course of this journey I shall have many occasions to call it a circuit, if not a circle, so I chose to give it the title of circuits, in the plural, because I do not pretend to have travelled it all in one journey, but in many, and some of them many times over; the better to inform my self of every thing I could find worth taking notice of. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
very fine stone bridge, stately stone bridge, very great trade, good burthen, considerable manufacture, noble harbour, decayed town, great manufacture, very great quantity, agreeable town, noble seat, seamen call Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King James, King Charles, Great Britain, King Henry, King William, Queen Elizabeth, King Edward, Act of Parliament, Sir John, Sir William, Lord Mayor, Queen Mary, North Riding, River Trent, Sir Christopher, West Riding, East Riding, Firth of Clyde, King George, Prince of Wales, River Dee, William the Conqueror, Winterton Ness, Duke of Marlborough, Duke of Monmouth New!
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