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From young princess to internationally revered head of state, Queen Elizabeth has always fascinated and intrigued. This fully updated second edition celebrates and remembers the glorious reign of Britain's longest-serving and much cherished monarch.

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The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a novel by Daniel Defoe, originally published in 1720. Captain Singleton is believed to have been partly inspired by the exploits of the English pirate...

Following the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe wrote a new fiction, the story of an English pirate whose success eclipsed every buccaneer the Atlantic world had seen. Featuring a haunted, unreliable narrator, a daring trek across the continent of Africa, and mercantile... Read Full Overview

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a novel by Daniel Defoe, originally published in 1720. It has been re-published multiple times since, some of which times were in 1840 1927, ]1972 and 2008. Captain Singleton is believed to have been partly... Read Full Overview

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a novel by Daniel Defoe, originally published in 1720. It has been re-published multiple times since, some of which times were in 1840, 1927, 1972 and 2008. Captain Singleton is believed to have been partly... Read Full Overview

Kidnapped as a child, Bob Singleton goes to sea at the age of 12 and makes a fortune crossing Africa on foot, loses it, and makes another as a pirate before he is ultimately reformed. Captain Singleton is an adventure story, a travel narrative, and an exploration of society from... Read Full Overview

Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) was a prolific English writer who became one of the first Western writers to write novels and turn them into a sought after literary genre. During his life, Defoe wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on topics as wide ranging as politics,... Read Full Overview

The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, del famoso Captain Singleton (1720) cubre tanto la tierra como el mar en un solo volumen, en dos mitades cuidadosamente compuestas. La primera mitad de la novela incluye una notable traves a por tierra a trav s de frica despu s de que los... Read Full Overview

"The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton" is a novel by Daniel Defoe. The novel follows the life of the titular character, Captain Bob Singleton, who becomes a pirate after being orphaned at a young age. Singleton sets out on a series of adventures,... Read Full Overview

In this swashbuckling novel, Defoe tells the story of a sailor who sets off on a series of adventures that take him from Africa to the Caribbean. Along the way, he becomes a pirate and engages in numerous battles and acts of derring-do. But despite his many exploits, Captain...

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