Providence displayed: or A very surprising account of one Mr. Alexander Selkirk, master of a merchant-man called 'the Cinque-Ports'; who dreaming that the ship would ... be lost, he desired to be left on a desolate island in the South-Seas, where he lived four years and four months, without seeing the face of man ... as also, how he came ... to be ... redeemed from that fatal place, by two Bristol privateers ... To which is added, an account of his birth and education ...
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Author / Creator: | Rogers, Woodes, d. 1732. |
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Imprint: | London, 1810. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Harleian miscellany ; v.5 p.429-433. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4091245 |
Other authors / contributors: | Selkirk, Alexander, 1676-1721 |
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Notes: | "Printed nearly verbatim from the narrative given by Captain Woodes Rogers in his 'Cruizing voyage round the world,' 1712."--p. 429 (footnote) "An account of the island of Juan Fernandez": p. 432-433. In editions of the Harleian miscellany in the Library of Congress: London, 1744-46. 26 cm. v. 5 (1745) p. 402-406. London, 1808-11. 22 cm. v. 11 (1810) p. 40-45. |
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