{"product_id":"madagascar-robert-drury-9781379726555","title":"Madagascar: Or, Robert Drury's Journal, During Fifteen Years Captivity on That Island. ... Written by Himself; ... The Second Edit","description":"The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.\u003cbr\u003eWestern literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. \u003cbr\u003e++++\u003cbr\u003eThe below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: \u003cbr\u003e++++\u003cbr\u003eBritish Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eT070324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrury's authorship has been disputed. Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Trent (\"strong probability\"), Hutchins, Moore, Novak (\"Edited and written in part by Defoe\"). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions. A reissue of the f\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLondon: printed: and sold by J. Brotherton; T. Worrall; and J. Jackson, 1731. xvi,464p., plates: map; 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Drury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1379726557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781379726555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gale Ecco, Print Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.06d","brand":"Robert Drury","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44064494518527,"sku":"9781379726555","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7f2c099c-434b-4290-85a9-5bd4c474216f.jpg?v=1685395818","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/madagascar-robert-drury-9781379726555","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}