An Account of the Captivity and Escape of Captain Robert Knox
Author | : Robert Knox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1821 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
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Author | : Robert Knox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1821 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Knox |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781015963399 |
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Author | : Robert Knox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2015-07-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781330941133 |
Excerpt from Account of the Captivity of Capt. Robert Knox: And Other Englishmen, in the Island of Ceylon; And of the Captain's Miraculous Escape, and Return to England, in September, 1680; After Detention on the Island of Nineteen Years and a Half Anno 1657, the Ann frigate, of London, Captain Robert Knox commander, on the one-and-twentieth day of January, set sail out of the Downs, in the service of the Honourable the English East India Company, bound for Fort St. George, on the Coast of Coromandel, to trade one year from port to port in India. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Robert Knox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1681 |
Genre | : British |
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Robert Knox was travelling with his father in 1659 on the latter's journey homeward from his post with the British East India Company at Fort St. George when a storm obliged their ship to put into Cottier Bay, Ceylon. The two were detained as prisoners along with 14 others, and carried into the interior of the island. Knox's father died in 1661, but Knox himself remained a prisoner at large for over 19 years, supporting himself by knitting caps, lending out corn and rice, and hawking goods about the country. Though the rajah pressed him to enter his service, Knox resisted, and finally escaped to the Dutch settlement at Arippu on the north-west of the island. Reaching England in 1680, he entrusted the manuscript of this account to Robert Hooke, and enlisted in the East India Company, for further adventures in an already adventuresome life. These engravings include depictions of agricultural techniques, two native primates, customs and costumes and an execution being carried out by an elephant.
Author | : Katherine Frank |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1639360271 |
It is January 1719 and Daniel Defoe, almost sixty, sits at a table, writing. He is troubled with gout and debt, but for now is preoccupied with a younger man on a barren shore – Robinson Crusoe, for which he will principally be remembered. Several miles south, an old man, Robert Knox, is bent over a heavy volume. It is Historical Relation, his account of being held captive on Ceylon, published forty years ago after he escaped and returned to England. It has long been out of print, but a copy perhaps sits on the desk of Daniel Defoe as he writes. Where did Crusoe come from? And what is the secret of his endurance? Crusoe explores the intertwined lives of two real men – Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox – and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction. It is the biography of a book and its hero, the story of Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe.
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : London (England) |
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