Title: 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... as Also Captain Singleton's Return to Sea, With an Account of His Many Adventures and Pyracies With the Famous Captain Avery and Others Publisher: London : J. Brotherton [etc.] Publication date: 1720 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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Defoe was a prolific novelist, journalist and pamphleteer. His work is notable for its realism, precision and directness of style. Defoe is also recognized as the first author in modern English literature to write ghost stories.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Real Pyrates,
By Professor William Montgomery McGovern (Northwestern) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (Paperback)
DeFoe brings the lives of the classic era of pyrates to life. Men like Low, really evil, Teach, not a nice guy, Misson, a utopian, Bartholomew Roberts, cutthroat, come to life. He must have attended the trials in England of some of the pyrates and reports their stories in a lively fashion. The actions of the pyrates were well known to the merchants in London and the cause of great concern. These men killed a lot of people and the English navy hanged most of them, except for the scores killed in battle(like Black Bart and Blackbeard), and the exceptional man who retired. These pyrates disrupted commerce around the world and left many innocent merchantmen dead or bankrupt.This is an interesting read for people who want the true story.
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Basic Defoe,
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This review is from: The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (Hardcover)
If you have read some of Defoe's more popular works, like Robinson Crusoe or Moll Flanders, you know that, while entertaining, his works are not necessarily page turners. The style of this story is a first person narrative of two major adventures of the main character, Bob Singleton. The first tale is that of an improbable trek by a crowd of failed mutineers and malcontents across the continent of Africa, east to west. The story is replete with the usual features of deepest, darkest Africa: elephant graveyards, great deserts, huge lakes, rivers running with gold and native tribes with strange customs. The second tale is a wildly successful pirate cruise of the classic regions including the Caribbean, Madagascar and Spice Islands. The story is again somewhat improbable in that the author, early on, inserts a Quaker doctor into the crew and uses him as the voice of moderation and sanity in the crew, tempering their actions. Overall the effect is not unappealing or without merit. Defoe does a good job of providing a readable story, the style is dated and makes for a slower read, although still entertaining. I wouldn't look for any great insight into the life of pirates, although Defoe seems to have a reasonable knowledge of the sailing of wooden ships. P-)
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This review is from: The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (Kindle Edition)
This is a great story of adventure, not just at sea, but across the width of the African continent. The geographic details given in the book can still be traced on modern maps.
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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 to Sea, with an Account of his many Adventures and Pyracies with the famous Captain Avery and others. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Captain Wilmot, Friend William, Captain Avery, Pieces of Eight, Man of War, Pound Weight, Red Sea, Elephants Teeth, Gold Dust, Coast of Malabar, Gulph of Persia, Men of War, Cape of Good Hope, Gold Coast, Bay of Bengal, Days March, Quantity of Gold, River Side, Top of the Tree, William the Quaker, Flag of Truce, Ship's Company, Spice Islands, Sum of Money, Coast of Africa New!
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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 to Sea, with an Account of his many Adventures and Pyracies with the famous Captain Avery and others. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Captain Wilmot, Friend William, Captain Avery, Pieces of Eight, Man of War, Pound Weight, Red Sea, Elephants Teeth, Gold Dust, Coast of Malabar, Gulph of Persia, Men of War, Cape of Good Hope, Gold Coast, Bay of Bengal, Days March, Quantity of Gold, River Side, Top of the Tree, William the Quaker, Flag of Truce, Ship's Company, Spice Islands, Sum of Money, Coast of Africa New!
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books:
- Rivers and Lakes (Habitats) by David Cumming on page 42
- Children of Israel by Tamar Grand on page 148
- PIECES OF EIGHT by Sydney J. Harris on page 115
- Captain Singleton (Dodo Press) by Daniel Defoe in Front Matter
- The Black Prince by David Green on page 64
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