The life and surprizing adventures of Don Antonio de Trezzanio Who was Self-Educated, and lived Forty-Five Years in an uninhabited Island in the East-Indies. Containing his Birth in a Monastery; his being committed to the Sea in a Chest; his being cast on a desolate Island in the East-Indies; his being found by a Roe, with the remarkable. Tenderness with which she nourished and brought him up, till able to shift for himself; the Language he learnt, and the Method he made use of for his Defence from the wild Beasts; an Account of the different Sorts of Provision, and manner of providing it; the Death of the old Roe, and his great Grief thereon; his extraordinary Surprize at meeting with Salandio a Mendicant Fryar, who came there to live a Hermit's Life; Salandio teaches him to speak, and instructs him in Religious Principles; Antonio proposes to go off the Island, which Salandio consents to; their Arrival at Goa, where he enjoys Ease, Plenty and Respect. Adorned with Copper-Plates

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for H. Serjeant, at the Star, without Temple-Bar 1761, [1761]
Subjects:	Adventure And Adventurers / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/0289700100?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa