Front cover image for The pleasant, and surprizing adventures of Mr. Robert Drury : during his fifteen years captivity on the island of Madagascar containing I. His Voyage to and short stay at the East Indies. II. An account of the ship-wreck of the Degrave, on the Island of Madagascar; the murder of Captain Younge, and his ship's company, except Admiral Bembo's son, and some few others, who made their escape. III. His captivity, hard usage, marriage, and wonderful variety of fortune. IV. His travels thorow the island, and description of its situation, product, manufactures, commodities. &c. V. The nature of the people, their customs wars, religion and policy: as also, the Conferences between some of their Chiefs, and the author, concerning the Christian, and their religion. VI. His redemption from thence by Captain Mackett, late Commander of the Prince of Wales, in the Honourable East India Company's service: His arrival to England, and second voyage thither. Vii. A vocabulary of the Madagascar Language : the whole is a faithful narrative of matters of fact, interspers'd with variety of amazing incidents, and illustrated with a sheet map of Madagascar, and cuts

The pleasant, and surprizing adventures of Mr. Robert Drury : during his fifteen years captivity on the island of Madagascar containing I. His Voyage to and short stay at the East Indies. II. An account of the ship-wreck of the Degrave, on the Island of Madagascar; the murder of Captain Younge, and his ship's company, except Admiral Bembo's son, and some few others, who made their escape. III. His captivity, hard usage, marriage, and wonderful variety of fortune. IV. His travels thorow the island, and description of its situation, product, manufactures, commodities. &c. V. The nature of the people, their customs wars, religion and policy: as also, the Conferences between some of their Chiefs, and the author, concerning the Christian, and their religion. VI. His redemption from thence by Captain Mackett, late Commander of the Prince of Wales, in the Honourable East India Company's service: His arrival to England, and second voyage thither. Vii. A vocabulary of the Madagascar Language : the whole is a faithful narrative of matters of fact, interspers'd with variety of amazing incidents, and illustrated with a sheet map of Madagascar, and cuts

Robert Drury (Author), Daniel Defoe (Attributed name), William Meadows (Printer), Thomas Astley (Bookseller)
Print Book, English, 1743
Printed, and sold by W. Meadows, in Cornhill; T. Astley, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and B. Milles in Hound-Ditch near Bishopsgate, London, 1743