Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England

by Daniel Defoe

Overview

This travel journal starts and ends in London. Defoe sets out April 3, 1722 and begins to make observations about the scale of the villages he sees, the types of buildings, the increase in populous and in real estate values as well as the commerce thereabout. The descriptions of the bustling "market-towns" are especially interesting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781458706669
Publisher:	ReadHowYouWant
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	172 KB

About the Author

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) was an English author best known for his adventure novel, Robinson Crusoe, that he wrote later in life. A prolific writer, Defoe authored several books on economics, history, biography and crime. He pursued a variety of careers including merchant, soldier, secret agent and political pamphleteer, but is best remembered for his fiction. Daniel Defoe's other widely read books include Roxana, Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year. The name of the Robinson Crusoe Island, located in the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile, was inspired by Defoe's famous story.