Amazon.com: The Four Years Voyages of Captain George Roberts (Annotated): Being a Series of Uncommon Events: 9798302230409: McLaine, Matt, Roberts, George, Defoe, Daniel: Books (original) (raw)

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This fully annotated edition of The Four Years Voyages of Captain George Roberts includes:

• Newly transcribed from the original texts
• Thoroughly annotated with over 270 footnotes
• Introductory essay exploring the authenticity, authorship, the reality of the story, and the history of the text itself
• Reproductions of maps and charts based on Roberts' notes
• Appendices featuring supporting material, newspaper articles, trial testimony, witness statements, and more

A STORY OF SHIPWRECK AND SURVIVAL, OF PIRATES AND PERSEVERANCE!

Long treated as a Daniel Defoe novel in the style of

Robinson Crusoe, 1726's Four Years Voyages is instead a remarkably well-researched and surprisingly fact-filled journey through the Cape Verde Islands. Was there a real George Roberts, and did his journals and recollections form the true core of this book?

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