Name: A New Voyage Round The World (in English)
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Author: Struik, Alex ; Defoe, Daniel
ISBN: 9781479261116

portada A New Voyage Round The World (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Daniel Defoe

Illustrated by

Alex Struik

Publisher

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Language

Inglés

Pages

342

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.46 kg.

ISBN13

9781479261116

Synopsis "A New Voyage Round The World (in English)"

The full title of this book is: "A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course never Sailed before. Being a Voyage undertaken by some Merchants, who afterwards proposed the Setting up an East-India Company in Flanders" is a narrative fiction of a merchant ship's captain who sails east via the Cape of Good Hope, landing at various ports until they arrive off the western coast of South America. Once they arrive in Chile, the captain decides to test the theory that the Andes can be crossed by foot by sending a group of his men across the continent. The captain then sails around the Horn and picks them up on the other side, where he is told all about their overland adventures. Daniel Defoe (approx 1659-1661 to 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain and along with others such as Richardson, is among the founders of the English novel.

Daniel Defoe

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Daniel Defoe (Londres, 1660-1731) fue novelista, periodista, poeta e historiador; su vida transcurrió por oscuros vericuetos: viajes, empleos diversos, amistades políticas y misiones secretas. En su obra cultivó distintos géneros, como la sátira: El verdadero inglés de Inglaterra (1701), El medio más rápido para acabar con los disidentes (1702) y Augusta Triumphants o Cómo hacer de Londres la ciudad más floreciente del mundo (1728); la novela realista: La aventuras de Moll Flanders (1722), Diario del año de la peste (1722) y Roxana o la amante afortunada(1724), y el ensayo económico-político: Consideraciones sobre el crédito público (1724), El perfecto comerciante inglés (1726) y Plan del comercio inglés (1728). Con todo, su obra más conocida es sin duda Robinson Crusoe (1719).

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