The adventures of Robert Drury :
during fifteen years captivity on the island of Madagascar; containing a description of that island; an account of its produce, manufactures, and commerce; with an account of the manners and customs, wars, religion, and civil policy of the inhabitants: to which is added a vocabulary of the Madagascar language /
Written by himself, and now carefully revised and corrected from the original copy.

Description

Main Author

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731

Language(s)

English ; Malagasy

Published

London : Printed and sold by W. Meadows, 1743; Hull, Reprinted for Stodart and Craggs, 1807.

Subjects

Malagasy language > Malagasy language / Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Madagascar > Madagascar / Description and travel > Madagascar / Description and travel / Early works to 1800.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Note

"A vocabulary of the Madagascar language": p. [454]-459.
First edition, 1729, has title: Madagascar: or, Robert Drury's journal.
"It is clearly a work of fiction by Defoe."--Moore, J. R. Defoe's sources for Robert Drury's journal. Bloomington, Ind. [1943] p. 8.
Conjectured to have been edited by Defoe. cf. Dict. nat. biog.

Physical Description

xii, 459 p. front., pl. 21 cm.

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