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Defoe drew from his varied experiences as wholesaler, government spy and journalist to write a description of the counties he travelled through...

Defoe’s impressions of Queenborough, recorded in his 'A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain' (1722-5), seem to have been coloured by his scandalized discovery that such a lowly place was entitled to two members of parliament, the same as more populous and economically important districts of London...

Not many of the towns of east Kent detained Daniel Defoe for long in his ‘Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain’(1724-6)...

More than a quarter of a century after Samuel Pepys and his fellow naval administrators had recommended the fortification and expansion of Sheerness as a dockyard, one of Daniel Defoe’s impressions of it in his 'Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain' (1724-6) was of a newly emerging town heavily shaped by its naval identity and conscious of its role in the defence of the Medway towns and London...