# The pleasant and surprising adventures of Robert Drury, during his fifteen years' captivity on the island of Madagascar

Author: Drury, Robert, 1687-1750?; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 [Dubious author]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71844

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## Summary

Among the various attractions of “Autobiography,” that of singular and extraordinary personal adventure, when faithfully related by the person to whom it has occurred, is by no means the least alluring. The shipwreck of Robert Drury, at the age of sixteen, in the Degrave East Indiaman, on the southern coast of the island of Madagascar, in the year 1702, supplied a remarkable opportunity for one of those accurate delineations of an isolated and barbarous people, which are at once so amusing for their novelty, and instructive for the additional lights which they throw upon the innumerable varieties of human situation and character. The following volume affords a plain and unsophisticated ac...

## Chapters

- [VOLUME V.—ROBERT DRURY.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pleasant-and-surprising-adventures-of-robert-drury-during-h-e8d63118/chapters/1/index.md)
- [did. After some previous discourse about business, and they had drunk a](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-pleasant-and-surprising-adventures-of-robert-drury-during-h-e8d63118/chapters/2/index.md)