Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300049800
Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2023-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387007027
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781903385838
Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0062417436
Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie’s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0141962356
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.
Author : Patrick Keiller
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781861890283
The award-winning film "Robinson in Space" is a satirical record of a journey made by a fictional character called Robinson through the increasingly unknown landscapes of present-day England. This book juxtaposes the narrative and over 200 images from the film.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 1708
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Richard West
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Daniel Defoe's life was packed with incident and drama. Born in the year of the Restoration of the Monarchy after the English Civil War, he remained a nonconformist throughout his life, actively rebelled against James II, travelled the country as a spy for King William and Queen Mary, worked in Scotland on active behalf of the historic Union of Scotland and England, helped launch the South Sea Company, was bankrupted frequently as a businessman, was imprisoned for libel and debt, and died a pauper.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 1748
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : J. D. Taylor
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1910924210
What is life like in England? Island Story weaves history and ideas telling a story of rebellion (think Brexit) and retail parks, migration and inertia, pessimism and disappearing ways of life, and a fiery, unrealized desire for collective belonging and power. Skeptical and inquisitive, Taylor cycled all round Britain with only a rusty bike and a tent, interviewing and staying with strangers from all walks of life. Without a map and travelling with the most basic of gear, the journey revels in serendipity and schadenfreude. Think you know the island? Island Story will have you think again.
