Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Daniel Defoe: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton
Appendix A: The Test-Run(?) for
Singleton - 1. The King of Pirates: Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar (1719)
Appendix B: Pirate Writing
- 1. From Penelope Aubin, The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English Lady (1723)
- 2. Letter from David Aubin to Abraham and Henry Aubin (3 June 1720)
- 3. Some Memoirs concerning that famous Pyrate Capt. Avery (November 1708)
- 4. From The Life and Adventures of Capt. John Avery (1709)
- 5. From A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates (1724)
- 6. From Daniel Defoe, A Review of the State of the British Nation (18 October 1707)
Appendix C: Travel Writing
- 1. From Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon (1681)
- 2. From Madagascar: Or, Robert Drury’s Journal (1729)
- 3. From Willem Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (1705)
- 4. From William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World (1697)
- 5. From Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712)
- 6. From Herman Moll, Atlas Geographus (1711–17)
Works Cited and Select Bibliography