The life and surprizing adventures of Don Antonio de Trezzanio, Who was Self-Educated, and lived Forty-Five Years in an uninhabited Island in the East-Indies. Containing his Birth in a Monastery; his being committed to the Sea in a Chest; his being cast on a desolate Island in the East-Indies; his being found by a Roe, with the remarkable. Tenderness with which she nourished and brought him up, till able to shift for himself; the Language he learnt, and the Method he made use of for his Defence from the wild Beasts; an Account of the different Sorts of Provision, and manner of providing it; the Death of the old Roe, and his great Grief thereon; his extraordinary Surprize at meeting with Salandio a Mendicant Fryar, who came there to live a Hermit's Life; Salandio teaches him to speak, and instructs him in Religious Principles; Antonio proposes to go off the Island, which Salandio consents to; their Arrival at Goa, where he enjoys Ease, Plenty and Respect. Adorned with Copper-Plates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, d. 1185.

Standardized Title:

Philosophus autodidactus. English. Abridgments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adventure and adventurers--Early works to 1800.

Adventure and adventurers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],158p.,plates )

Other Title:

Life and surprizing adventures of Don Antonio de Trezzanio,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for H. Serjeant, at the Star, without Temple-Bar, [1761]

Notes:

An abridged translation of the 'Philosophus autodidactus' of Abū ibn al-Ṭufail.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T62081.

OCLC:

642646399