Full Description
Following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe wrote a new fiction, the story of an English pirate whose success eclipsed every buccaneer the Atlantic world had seen. Featuring a haunted, unreliable narrator, a daring trek across the continent of Africa, and mercantile adventures in the China Seas, Captain Singleton is a tale of loneliness, brotherhood, and the lust for profit.Appendices to this Broadview Edition include materials on pirate writing, travel writing, and earlier pirate tales that may have provided models for Captain Singleton.
Contents
APPENDICES Appendix A: The Test-Run(?) for Singleton
The King of Pirates: Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar (1719)
Appendix B: Pirate Writing
From The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English Lady (Penelope Aubin, 1723)
Letter from James Aubin to Abraham Aubin, protesting his treatment by pirates (1720)
Some Memoirs Concerning that Famous Pyrate Capt. Avery (1708)
From The Life and Adventures of Capt. John Avery (1709)
From A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates (1724)
From Daniel Defoe, A Review of the State of the British Nation (1707)
Appendix C: Travel Writing
From Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon (1681)
From Madagascar: Or, Robert Drury's Journal (1729)
From Willam Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (1705)
From William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World (1697)
From Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712)
From Herman Moll, Atlas Geographus (1711-17)
