{"product_id":"9780141962351","title":"A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain","description":"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.","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108848386288,"sku":"9780141962351","price":16.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141962351_p0.jpg?v=1763655847","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141962351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}