Captain Singleton (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- First Published: 1720
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure romance
- Time of Work: Eighteenth century
- Setting: The navigable world
- Principal Characters: Captain Bob Singleton, William Walters
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Voyages, Doctors, Eighteenth century, Ships, Sea or seafaring life, Adventure, Pacific Ocean, Pirates, Exploration or explorers, Society of Friends or Quakers
- Locales: Africa, England, Oceans
The Story:
Captain Bob Singleton was stolen as a child and reared by the gypsy who bought him. His first voyages, which began when he was age twelve, were to Newfoundland. On one of these voyages, the ship was captured by Turks. The Turkish vessel was subsequently captured by a Portuguese ship. After many months on shore, Singleton sailed as a cabin boy from Portugal on a voyage to Goa on the Malabar coast. At this time, Singleton began to learn the arts of navigation, and he also became an accomplished thief.
On the return voyage, a storm drove the ship to the shore of...
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