The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

by Daniel DEFOE (c.1660 - 1731)

"About the year ..."

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a "bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa, and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. It has been commended for its depiction of the homosexual relationship between the eponymous hero and his religious mentor, the Quaker, William Walters." (Summary by Wikipedia).


Listen next episodes of The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton:
"Accordingly we went about-ship ..." , "I come back now to my own history ... " , "I have reason to believe ..." , "In the meantime, we came to an anchor ..." , "Our men had but just brought the ship to rights ..." , "The tide was up ..." , "This passage, when I related it to a friend ... " , "This perfectly confounded us ..." , "We sailed along there ..." , "We sailed away for the Cape of Good Hope ..." , "We were now in a good place ..." , "William went to work his own way ..."