Stolen as a child and raised at sea, Bob Singleton joins a mutiny, is put ashore on Madagascar and leads a band of castaways on an overland march across Africa, hunting, trading and digging gold. Later he becomes a pirate in the Indian Ocean and the Far East, alongside the shrewd Quaker William Walters. Edward Garnett’s introduction argues for the book’s realism.
Lesser-known Defoe for readers of Robinson Crusoe, with a view of Africans and slavery that is that of 1720. Download the free EPUB.