\'Sheer delight ...
In this acclaimed biography, West offers both a history of Britain in Defoe\'s time as well as an in depth exploration of the Life and mind of one of England.
He was both an observer and participant in events - informed and insightful.
We can look the great biographers Macaulay and Trevelyan in the face.\' The Daily Telegraph Daniel Defoe bestrode the age like a colossus.
A story as good as one of Defoe\'s own novels, full of immediacy, action and good sense ... \'Sheer delight ..