Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part I

Editorial board W R Owens is at the Open University P N Furbank is at the Open University Professor N H Keeble is at the University of Stirling Dr David Hayton is at the Queen's University of Belfast Dr Andrew Wear is at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Dr John McVeagh is at the University of Ulster

'excellent scholarly introductions ... put the works in the context of Defoe's biography and the broader cultural and political issues of the time' Scottish Studies Review 'at last we have a modern and reliable edition [of A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain]...this edition should also provide the raw material for a major advance in our understanding of Defoe's oeuvre in general and his more specific contribution to the geographical culture of the early eighteenth century.' Journal of Historical Geography

• Volume 1: A TOUR THRO’ THE WHOLE ISLAND OF GREAT BRITAIN, VOLUME I, Volume 2: A TOUR THRO’ THE WHOLE ISLAND OF GREAT BRITAIN, VOLUME II, Volume 3: A TOUR THRO’ THE WHOLE ISLAND OF GREAT BRITAIN, VOLUME III, Volume 4: A GENERAL HISTORY OF DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS (1725–6) and AN ESSAY UPON LITERATURE (1726)