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The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton
by Daniel DEFOE (c.1660 - 1731)"The tide was up ..."
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:
"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 ..." , "This passage, when I related it to a friend ... " , "This perfectly confounded us ..." , "We sailed along there ..." , "We were now in a good place ..."