Kapitän Singleton by Daniel Defoe
The Life, Adventures and Pyracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
A rough-and-ready seafarer rises from poverty to become a daring pirate and trader, surviving kidnappings, shipboard violence, and long voyages to the African coast and Madagascar, where he seizes treasure, engages in slave-trading and privateering, and outwits rivals; after amassing great wealth through a mixture of plunder and commerce he returns home to retire, the narrative offering a vivid, sometimes morally ambiguous portrait of early-18th-century maritime life, colonial enterprise, and the mingled brutality and ingenuity that propel his fortunes.
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- 1720
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