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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
1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, 182 pages)
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).
Reproduction of original from British Library.