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A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain
''A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain'' is an account of his travels by English author Daniel Defoe, first published in three volumes between 1724 and 1727.〔Southall, Humphrey; Great Britain Historical GIS Project (2009). (Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain ). Department of Geography. University of Portsmouth.〕 Other than ''Robinson Crusoe'', ''Tour'' was Defoe's most popular and financially successful work during the eighteenth century. Pat in Defoe’s use of the “literary vehicle (the ‘tour’ or ‘circuit’) that could straddle the literal and the imaginative,” “Nothing . . . anticipated Defoe’s Tour”. Thanks in part to his extensive travels and colourful background as a soldier, businessman, and spy, Defoe had “hit on the best blend of objective fact and personal commentary” in his descriptions of locations and trips around Britain.
== Composition and structure ==
The ''Tour'' is roughly divided into several tours, or circuits, around Britain. Volume 1 contains three letters. The first two, Through Essex, Colchester, Harwich, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, and through Kent Coast, Maidstone, Canterbury, Sussex, Hampshire, and Surrey, are complete circuits, both beginning and ending in London. Letter 3 describes a journey out to Land's End, while Letter 4 starts Volume 2 with the journey back. Letter 5 focuses on London and the Court. Volume 2 ends with Letters 6 and 7 describing a path out to Anglesey and back. Finally, in Volume 3, the narrator begins at the Trent or the Mersey and slowly travels northwards from the Midlands, taking up Letters 8 through 10. Finally, Scotland is divided into three convenient units for Letters 11 through 13.
Defoe did not necessarily travel to all of these locations, and certainly did not travel them as or just before he was writing the work; rather, he relied on his past journeys, likely during his time as a merchant or while working for politician Robert Harley in the early 18th century, and, at times, relied on or was inspired by other travel literature such as William Camden's ''Britannia'' and John Strype's new version of John Stow's Survey of London.
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