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Drawn from nearly a century of detailed and fascinating reporting by The Times, discover insights and memories of the extraordinary period of social change that was our nation's second Elizabethan age. Featuring Queen Elizabeth's obituary, as published in The Times Reflections... Read Full Overview

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The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a novel by Daniel Defoe, originally published in 1720.

The narrative describes the life of the Englishman, Singleton, stolen from a well-to-do family as... Read Full Overview

Following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe wrote a new fiction, the story of an English pirate whose success eclipsed every buccaneer the Atlantic world had seen. Featuring a haunted, unreliable narrator, a daring trek across the continent of Africa, and mercantile... Read Full Overview

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The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a novel by Daniel Defoe, originally published in 1720. Captain Singleton is believed to have been partly inspired by the exploits of the English pirate... Read Full Overview

Kidnapped as a child, Bob Singleton goes to sea at the age of 12 and makes a fortune crossing Africa on foot, loses it, and makes another as a pirate before he is ultimately reformed. Captain Singleton is an adventure story, a travel narrative, and an exploration of society from... Read Full Overview

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a novel by Daniel Defoe, originally published in 1720. It has been re-published multiple times since, some of which times were in 1840 1927, ]1972 and 2008. Captain Singleton is believed to have been partly... Read Full Overview

Das Leben und die Abenteuer des Seefahrers Bob sind ungew hnlich und fesselnd. Als Kind reicher Eltern wird er von einer Diebin entf hrt, an eine Bettlerin weitergegeben und dann an eine Zigeunerin f r 12 Shilling verkauft. Doch das Leben hat noch viel mehr f r ihn geplant ..... Read Full Overview

"The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton" is a novel by Daniel Defoe. The novel follows the life of the titular character, Captain Bob Singleton, who becomes a pirate after being orphaned at a young age. Singleton sets out on a series of adventures,... Read Full Overview

Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) was a prolific English writer who became one of the first Western writers to write novels and turn them into a sought after literary genre. During his life, Defoe wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on topics as wide ranging as politics,... Read Full Overview

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a novel by Daniel Defoe, originally published in 1720. It has been re-published multiple times since, some of which times were in 1840, 1927, 1972 and 2008. Captain Singleton is believed to have been partly... Read Full Overview

Kapten Singleton ?r en fruktad pirat, en blodisande legend. Men det hela b?rjade med att en ung pojke blir bortr?vad fr?n sin rika familj och uppfostrad av kringresande romer. Det h?r ?r den klassiska ber?ttelsen om hur Kapten Singleton blev till och om hur han spred skr?ck p?... Read Full Overview

Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg ver ffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Gro teil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erh ltlich. Mit TREDITION CLASSICS... Read Full Overview

Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg ver ffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Gro teil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erh ltlich. Mit der Buchreihe... Read Full Overview

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.