In search of the red slave
Subtitle: shipwreck and captivity in Madagascar
By: Mike Parker Pearson & Karen Godden.
Contributors: Godden, Karen.
Publisher: Sutton
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Stroud, Gloucestershire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Drury, Robert, 1687-1734?; Shipwreck victims -- Madagascar; Antandroy (Malagasy people)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: The pirates of Madagascar; title: Robert Drury goes to sea; title: Death in India; title: Shipwrecks and Scotsmen; title: Slaughter and survival; title: The land of thorns; title: The people of the tombs; title: The hill of ghosts; title: Life as a slave; title: Crime and violence; title: Kings and funerals; title: Giant birds and the Marco Polo connection; title: The riddle of the sands; title: The Frenchman's story; title: Headhunters and hostages; title: Guns and battles; title: Escape; title: Cave ab Incolis (Watch out for the locals); title: Rescue arrives; title: The slave turns slaver; title: An illiterate scribbler?; title: The unfinished story.