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The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton
by Daniel DEFOE (c.1660 - 1731)"We stood stock still ..."
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:
"About the year ..." , "Accordingly we went about-ship ..." , "During our encampment here ..." , "I come back now to my own history ... " , "I have reason to believe ..." , "I was as much affected ..." , "In about eight days we finished three canoes ..." , "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 asked our black prince ..." , "We did not much seek the conversing ..." , "We sailed along there ..." , "We sailed away for the Cape of Good Hope ..." , "We stayed here twelve days ..." , "We were now in a good place ..." , "Well, notwithstanding this, we ventured ..." , "When this ceremony was over ..." , "William went to work his own way ..."