The pleasant and surprizing adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his fifteen years captivity on the island of Madagascar : Containing I. His voyage to, and short stay at the East Indies. II. An Account of the shipwreck of the degrave, on the island of Madagasear; the murder of capt. Younge and his ship's company, except admiral Bembo's son, and some few others, who made their escape. III. His captivity, hard usage, marriage, and wonderful variety of fortune. IV. His travels thorow the island, and description of its situation, product, manufactures, commodities, &c. V. The nature of the people, their customs, wars, religion, and policy: as also, the conferences between some of their chiefs, and the author, concerning the Christian, and their religion. VI. His redemption from thence by Capt. Mackett, late commander of the Prince of Wales, in the Honourable East India Company's Service: His arrival in England, and second voyage thither. VII. A vocabulary of the Madagasear language. The whole is a faithful narrative of matter of fact, interspers'd with a variety of amazing incidents, and illustrated with a sheet map of Madagasear and other cuts. First written by himself, and now carefully revised and corrected from the original copy, with improvements.

Author/creator Drury, Robert
Other author Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 attributed name.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for and sold by M. Sheepey, under the Royal Exchange; J. Wren, near Great Turn Style. Holborn; and T. Lownds, Exeter Exchange in the Strand, 1750.
Descriptionviii,470 pages, plates : map ; 8⁰.
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Uniform titleMadagascar: or, Robert Drury's journal
Variant title Madagascar: or, Robert Drury's journal
General noteFirst published as 'Madagascar: or, Robert Drury's journal'.
General noteDrury's authorship has been disputed. Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Trent ("strong probability"), Hutchins, Moore, Novak ("Edited and written in part by Defoe"). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions.
General notePrinted from the same setting of type as the 1743 edition except for sheets A, Ff, and Hh, and cancel leaf B1.
General noteReproduction of original from Library of Congress.
References Moore, 511
References English Short Title Catalog, N20169.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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