The four years voyages of Capt. George Roberts
Subtitle: being a series of uncommon events, which befell him in a voyage to the islands of the Canaries, Cape de Verde, and Barbadoes, from whence he was bound to the coast of Guiney ...
By: written by himself
Contributors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Printed for A. Bettesworth [etc.]
Published: 1726
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Notes: Ascribed also to Defoe. According to the Dict. nat. biog. this ascription "seems unauthorized and unnecessary ... No reason can be alleged for doubting the existence of Roberts or the substantial truth of the narrative." According to W. P. Trent (in Camb. hist. of Eng. lit. v. 9, p. 25) though it may be the record of a real seaman, it "bears almost certain traces of Defoe's hand."  Cf. also Trent's Defoe, how to know him. p. 263.