Daniel Defoe, A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies
Daniel Defoe is best known, of course, as the author of Robinson Crusoe (1719) but was also famous as a political pampleteer, and is often called the father of modern journalism. He was born as Daniel Foe in 1660, the son of a butcher in Stoke Newington in London, but used the grander-sounding 'Defoe' as his pen name. He was arrested, pilloried and imprisoned in 1703 for a pamphlet he wrote satirising high church Tories. He later wrote pamphlets for both the Tories and the Whigs. His novels also included Captain Singleton (1720) and Moll Flanders (1722). His three volume travel book, Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain was published between 1724 and 1727, and was innovative partly because Defoe had actually visited the places he described. He died in 1731.
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Preface to First Volume
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Letter 1, Part 1: Through Essex to Colchester
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Letter 1, Part 2: Harwich and Suffolk
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Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire
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Appendix to letter 1
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Letter 2, Part 1: Kent Coast and Maidstone
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Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex
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Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey
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Letter 3, Part 1: London to Winchester
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Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset
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Letter 3, Part 3: From Exeter to Land's End
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Appendix to letter 3
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Addenda to the first volume
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Preface to Second Volume
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Letter 4, Part 1: North Cornwall and Devon
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Letter 4, Part 2: Somerset and Wiltshire
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Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire
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Letter 5 (London), Part 1: Overview and Suburbs
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Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City
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Letter 5 (London), Part 3: The Court and Westminster
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Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire
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Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester
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Letter 6, Part 3: Worcester, Hereford and Wales
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Letter 7, Part 1: Cheshire and North-West Midlands
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Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands
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Appendix to the second volume
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Preface to Third Volume
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Introduction to Third Volume
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Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley
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Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District
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Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire
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Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire
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Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland
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Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland
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Introduction to Scotland
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Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland
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Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland
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Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland
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Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth
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Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands
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