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Mapping Africa's Waterways in Defoe's Captain Singleton


Mapping Africa's Waterways in Defoe's Captain Singleton

The map reflects the ancient geographical theory that Africa's eastern and western rivers share a source.

Defoe's Wilderness: The image of Africa in Captain Singleton

Over a hundred and fifty years before Verney Cameron made the first recorded journey through equatorial Africa, a similar crossing, from east coast to west, ...

Captain Singleton and Geographers Gone Wrong - Broadview Press

Defoe is not operating with any secret knowledge of African cartography, and so modern maps quickly become confounding; and while Defoe is in ...

Features | Digital Defoe

Captain Singleton, I argue, tempers its own colonial fantasies as it questions the rational foundation of European ideas about Africa's rivers and cautions the ...

The Ambiguities of Captain Singleton, Defoe's Piratical Novel

30The African narrative in Captain Singleton has thus established European supremacy via weapons, maps, and the practice of fair-dealing with the natives which ...

African Impressions - Project MUSE

This geographical narrative proliferated in fictional and nonfictional texts alike, and it was born not from fanciful speculation but from ...

Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War

As indicated by the title-page, the 1757 novel has a fold-out map of Africa, made by Herman Moll (d.1732). 20. For critical attention to Defoe's ...

The life, adventures, and pyracies, of the famous Captain Singleton

... Africa with an Account of the. —_. w——. Voyage Home to England: As alſo ... 1720. by: Defoe, Daniel. Publication date: 1720. Topics: Language ...

Captain Singleton, by Daniel Defoe - Project Gutenberg

These men, too, had all along had a great mind to a voyage for the mainland of Africa, where they said we should have a fair cast for our lives, and might be ...

MERCANTILE GENTILITY OUT OF REACH - jstor

– . Daniel Defoe, e Life, Adventures, and Pyracies of the Famous Captain Singleton: Containing an. Account of ...

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

Famous Captain Singleton, by Daniel Defoe. #10 in our series by Daniel ... "Captain Singleton," of the crossing of Africa by a body of marooned sailors ...

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a novel by Daniel Defoe, originally published in 1720. It has been re-published ...

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton ...

The narrative describes the life of the Englishman, Singleton, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies, eventually making his way to ...

The life, adventures, and piracies of the famous Captain Singleton

DANIEL DEFOE. [HERE have been instances in the history of letters of men whose life-work was a single volume that.

Captain Singleton Summary - eNotes.com

This theological undertow in the novel is not nearly so pronounced as it is in other Defoe novels (CAPTAIN SINGLETON is scarcely an allegory), but it is ...

Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe | Goodreads

They get to the mainland of Africa (not a geographically or historically real Africa but a mythic landscape stitched together from incomplete maps, travellers' ...

Captain Singleton - Wikipedia

The first half of the book concerns Singleton's crossing of Africa, the second half concerning his life as a pirate in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. Defoe's ...

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton by ...

Title: The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton Author: Daniel Defoe This audiobook is narrated using an artificially ...

Captain Singleton : Defoe, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books

The narrative describes the life of the Englishman, Singleton, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies, eventually making his way to ...

Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe, ed. Manushag N. Powell

In scope, Singleton's journey reads partly as a travel narrative (with colonialist overtones) and partly as pirate narrative (with mercantilist overtones), so ...