The pleasant and surprizing adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his fifteen years captivity on the island of Madagascar [electronic resource] : 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drury, Robert, 1687-1734?

Contributor:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, attributed name.

Standardized Title:

Madagascar: or, Robert Drury's journal

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malagasy language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.--Early works to 1800.

Malagasy language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,470p.,plates ) map ;

Other Title:

Pleasant and surprizing adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his fifteen years captivity on the island of Madagascar

Place of Publication:

London : 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.

Notes:

First published as 'Madagascar: or, Robert Drury's journal'.

Drury'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.

Printed from the same setting of type as the 1743 edition except for sheets A, Ff, and Hh, and cancel leaf B1.

Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.

Cited in:

Moore, 511

English Short Title Catalog, N20169.

OCLC:

508032981