A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain
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A tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain is an account of his travels by English author Daniel Defoe.
A non-fiction work that gives a matter-of-fact account of Defoe's visits to various places, at a time when there were no ready reference works. Anyone living in Great Britain may find their own locality described there.
It is also a valuable source-work for anyone trying to get an idea of the state of England, Scotland and Wales a few decades before the Industrial Revolution. (The Industrial Revolution is normally reckoned to have begun in the 1760s, though some scholars say it had already started when Defoe was writing.)
[edit] External links
- Defoe on Turnpike roads (excerpt)
- Part of the book at Project Gutenberg
- Full text of the tour, at Vision of Britain
