Madagascar
Subtitle: or, Robert Drury's journal, during fifteen years' captivity on that island. And a further description of Madagascar, by the Abbe? Alexis Rochon.
By: Edited with an introduction and notes by Pasfield Oliver.
Contributors: Oliver, Samuel Pasfield, 1838-1907.; Rochon, Alexis, 1741-1817.
Series: Adventure series
Publisher: T. F. Unwin; Macmillan
Published: 1890
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Malagasy language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Madagascar -- Description and travel
Genres: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Notes: Contains facsimile of t.-p. of 1st ed., London, 1729.

Conjectured to have been edited by Defoe. cf. Dict. nat. biog.

"It is clearly a work of fiction by Defoe."--Moore, J. R. Defoe's sources for Robert Drury's journal. Bloomington, Ind. [1943] p. 8.

"A vocabulary of the Madagascar language": p.319-335.

"An account of the island of Madagascar. By the Abbe? Rochon. (Abridged from the English version of 1792": p. [351]-398.