Creator
Woodes Rogers
Title
A Cruising Voyage Round the World
Coverage
London
Publisher
Andrew Bell
Date
1718
Description
Second edition of Captain Woodes Rogers’s own account of his privateering voyage around the world between 1708 and 1711 (1st ed: 1712). In 1709, Rogers famously rescued Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish castaway marooned on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific for over four years, who likely provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719).