Evans, Ambrose/ Vendchurch, Alexander,
The Adventures, and Surprizing Deliverances, of James Dubourdieu and his Wife [...] also, The Adventures of Alexander Vendchurch (London: A. Bettesworth/ T. Warner/ C. Rivington/ J. Brotherton/ W. Meadows/ A. Dodd/ W. Chetwood, 1719).

THE| ADVENTURES,| AND| SURPRIZING DELIVERANCES,| OF| JAMES DUBOURDIEU.| AND HIS WIFE:| Who were taken by Pyrates and carried to the| Uninhabited Part of the Isle of Paradise.| CONTAINING| A Description of that Country, its Laws, Religion,| and Customs: Of Their being at last relea'd; and| how thy came to Paris, where thy are still living.| ALSO, THE| ADVENTURES| OF| ALEXANDER VENDCHURCH,| Whose Ship's Crew Rebelled against him, and set him| on Shore on an Island in the South-Sea, where he| liv'd five Years, five Months, and seven Days; and| was at last providentially releas'd by a Jamaica Ship.| [rule]| Written by HIMSELF.| [rule]| LONDON:| Printed by J. Bettenham for A. Bettesworth and T. Warner, in| Pater noster Row; C. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-yard;| J. Brotherton and W. Meadows, in Cornhill; A. Dodd without| Temple Bar, and W. Chetwood in Covent Garden. 1719.| Price Two Shillings.

Description

titlepage/ [2] pp. preface/ p.1-102/ new titlepage for "Alexander Vendchurch"/ p.1-34/ [2] pp. Errata.

Shelf-marks

{L: C.175.bb.27 [øErrata]}.

Bibliographical Reference

ESTC: t125916.

Author

The first part allegedly (1: p.102) followed a dicate by Ambrose Evans, the second wants to be written by Vendchurch himslef (both not listed by the Dictionary of National Bibliography).

Self-classification

preface: "Histories of private Persons".

Remarks

Two reports by shipwrecked persons who survived on islands, the first one with an astonishing wealth of aspects. Martha Rattenberg and James Dubourdieu, landlords from Paris, have met after being deserted by pirates on an island. Martha Rattenberg's report is mainly the story of a young girl borne on the English countryside who, having lost her parents, was cheated by two men and a landlord taking care of her money. Dubourdieu's report (1: p.69-96) covers two years during which he had to live on the island seperated from his wife yet enjoying a utopian happiness among natives devoted to love, in whose perspective he and his companion, a catholic priest appear as polytheists and descandants of the "children of wrath". - "Alexander Vendchurch" combines a love affair as it would be standard in a typical Spanish novel with the journey. His sojourn on an island does not become a remarkable part of his story.

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