Robinson Crusoe's Own Book; or, The Voice of Adventure, from the Civilized Man Cut off From His Fellows, By Force, Accident, or Inclination, and from the Wanderer in Strange Seas and Lands
With many wood engraved illustrations throughout, both full page and spot illustrations. 8vo. 431 pp.Blind stamped brown cloth covered board, Spine decoratively stamped in gold. Complete but in poor condition. Text is stained and foxed. Joints are broken but book is held together by webbing and endpapers. Several signatures loose.
"Mankind are all more or less imbued with the spirit of Robinson Crusoe; and we daily see those whose incurable restlessness strikingly assimilates their real characters to the ideal one, of that universal favorite, in his goat-skin breeches, with his man Friday, dancing cats, and parrot. The same individual will be found, in childhood, on the raft, - in boyhood, in the boat, - in manhood, in the ship; and finally, when the lull of old age comes over him, and he is hauled up on shore, he will still exclaim, like the ancient mariner, whose narrative forms a part of the present volume....To conclude: The narratives in this volume are all true, - true in generalities, true in particulars. Related as such, they are simple, unpretending, and artless. The narrators force from us our sympathy in their narrow and difficult escapes; and we feel confident that our readers will acknowledge that they have been deeply interested in what we have here collected for their entertainment and instruction. "
Includes: Adventures at the Falkland Islands; Doctor Ssawwa Bolshoi's Account of his Captivity and Sufferings Among the Kirghees Kaissacs, 1803-4; The Daring Intrepidity of Thomas Williams, A Forest Shepherd in Capturing a Bush-Ranger, Amongst the Wilds of New South Wales; 1826; A Descriptive Sketch of Michael Shuckwell, the Missouri Reaver-Trapper, 1822; An Adventure on the River Irawaddi, N Ava, During Which the Author Falls in Company with Mrs. Judson, 1826 by Major Calder Campbell; Incidents of Adventure during a Ramble From the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, by Crossing the Andes and Sailing Down the River Amazon, 1834; The Remarkable Transactions which Took Place at the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, During the Residence of William Mariner, one of the Survivors of The Port au Prince Privateer, Which was Destroyed by the Natives with an Account of the Wars, Manners and Customs of those singular People, 1808; Memoirs of Jean Bart, the Daring Frenchman; An Account of the Singular and Romantic Group of the Keeling's Islands, in the Southern Indian Ocean; Romaign's Journal of the Black Voyage of Le Rodeur; with an Account of King Peppel, of Bonny, in the Gulf of Guinea; The Narrative of Robert Adams, an American Sailor, the First White Man who ever visited the Great City of Tombuctoo.
Item #1388
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