The Life and Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

✍ Scribed by Daniel Defoe

• Book ID: 100442949
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
• Year: 1720
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 166 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781443441902

✦ Synopsis

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ebook, 181 pages
Published 1720
HarperPerennial Classics (2015)
The life, adventures, and pyracies, of the famous Captain Singleton: Containing an account of his being set on shore in the island of Madagascar, his settlement there, with a description of the place and inhabitants: of his passage from thence, in a Paraguay, to the main land of Africa, with an account of the customs and manners of the people : his great deliverances from the barbarous natives and wild beasts : of his meeting with an Englishman, a citizen of London, among the Indians, the great riches he acquired, and his voyage home to England : as also Captain Singleton's return adventures and pyracies with the famous Captain Avery and others
After being kidnapped from his family as a child, Bob Singleton is raised by the gypsy who purchased him. As a young man, he quickly takes to life at sea, and begins a series of adventures, both on and off land, eventually becoming a successful pirate known as Captain Singleton.
This novel is written much in the same style as author Daniel Defoe's other famous novels, including Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year, mixing accounts of adventure with well-researched economic and practical details that ground the story in the reality of its 18th century setting.