The life and strange surprizing adventures of Majr. Alexander Ramkins, a highland-officer, now in prison at Avignon : Being an account of several remarkable adventures during about twenty eight years service in Scotland, Germany, Italy, Flanders and Ireland; exhibiting a very agreeable and instructive lesson of human life, both in a publick and private capacity, in several pleasant instances of his amours, gallantry, oeconomy, &c.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for W. Boreham at the Angel in Pater-noster-Row,
1720.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Written in the first person. "Whether there was a real-life Ramkins remains an open question."--Furbank and Owens. The entry in the DNB is apparently entirely based on The memoirs. Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Arthur W. Secord, Hutchins, Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions. A reissue of the 1718 edition omitting the preface, and published 3 December 1719 (Moore). Price on title page: (Price 1s.) Reproduction of original from British Library. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, 182 pages) |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London. |