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Woodes Rogers

Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader and, from 1718, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas. He is known as the captain of the vessel that rescued marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

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A Cruising Voyage round the World
A Cruising Voyage round the World
Woodes Rogers
Woodes Rogers
Providence Display'd, Or A Very Surprizing Account of One Mr. Alexander Selkirk, Master of a Merchant-man Call'd the Cinque-Ports; who Dreaming that the Ship Would Soon After be Lost He Desired to be Left on a Desolate Island in the South Seas, where He Liv'd Four Years and Four Months, Without Seeing the Face of Man, the Ship Being Afterwards Cast Away as He Dreamed
As Also, how He Came Afterwards to be Miraculously Preserv'd and Redeem'd from that Fatal Place ... To which is Added, an Account of His Life and Conversation, Birth, and Education. His Description of the Island where He was Cast; how He Subsisted; the Several Strange Things He Saw, and how He Us'd to Spend His Time. With Some Pious Ejaculations that He Used, Compos'd During His Melancholy Residence There
Providence Display'd, Or A Very Surprizing Account of One Mr. Alexander Selkirk, Master of a Merchant-man Call'd the Cinque-Ports; who Dreaming that the Ship Would Soon After be Lost He Desired to be Left on a Desolate Island in the South Seas, where He Liv'd Four Years and Four Months, Without Seeing the Face of Man, the Ship Being Afterwards Cast Away as He Dreamed
Woodes Rogers
Voyage Autour Du Monde, Commencé en 1708 & Fini en 1711
Voyage Autour Du Monde, Commencé en 1708 & Fini en 1711
Woodes Rogers
Daniel Defoe, Charles Johnson, Nathaniel Mist, Woodes Rogers, John Atkins
A General History of the Pirates
Volume I and II + Research on Authorship
A General History of the Pirates
Daniel Defoe, Charles Johnson, Nathaniel Mist, Woodes Rogers, John Atkins

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