Book Description
Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 21,84 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 : 43,72 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 : 20,57 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 : Defoe D.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 552106818X
Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime’s experience to the tradition of travel writing as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain is an invaluable source of social and economic history. This book is not only a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution. It is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world.
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 31,14 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 : Russell Shorto
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2005-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1400096332
In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. "Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. Russell Shorto draws on this remarkable archive in The Island at the Center of the World, which has been hailed by The New York Times as “a book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past.” The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 1748
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 1708
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Robin Currie
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1426206275
Colorful illustrations and maps accompany stories of Great Britain and Ireland, covering topics from landscapes to literature and rock bands to the mystique of the royal family.
Author : Richard West
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 32,42 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.