Shipwrecked in the Degrave off southern Madagascar as a boy of sixteen, Robert Drury saw most of his shipmates killed and spent fifteen years as a slave and herdsman among the island’s peoples before finding a passage home. He describes their wars, cattle, burials and beliefs in close detail, and this edition adds his later voyage, a sequel and a vocabulary of the Malagasy language.
Long debated as the work of Daniel Defoe, now widely trusted as genuine, a remarkable early account of Madagascar. Download the free EPUB.