Rogers, Captain Woodes | A source for Robinson Crusoe

Rogers, Captain Woodes

A Cruising Voyage round the World: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope... 1708... 1711. London: for A. Bell and B. Lintot, 1712

8vo (190 x 118 mm). Folding frontis double hemisphere map by Moll a little creased with some minor fold separation, lacks Bowen map, three other folding maps by Senex present with some browning, text clean. Contemporary calf gilt; joints restored with some minor repair to spine.

A source for Robinson Crusoe

First edition. "Rogers's account is considered a buccaneering classic... After sailing down the coast of Brazil and rounding Cape Horn, he made for the deserted island of Juan Fernandez to seek shelter from a severe storm. There Rogers rescued the celebrated Alexander Selkirk, a Scot who had been marooned several years before... who has been immortalized as the prototype for the title character in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. An account of Selkirk's true adventures is given. The expedition then cruised the coast of Peru, taking various prizes, reached California, and crossed the Pacific to Asia. The high point of this circumnavigation was the capture of the Manila galleon, in 1709, at Puerto Seguro" (Hill).

REFERENCES:

Borba de Moraes p.744; Hill (2004) 1479; Howes R421; Sabin 72753