Robert Drury

Sailor, Author

1687 – 1743

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Who was Robert Drury?

Robert Drury was an English sailor on the Degrave who was shipwrecked at the age of 17 on the island of Madagascar. He would be trapped there for fifteen years. Upon returning to England a book allegedly recounting his memoirs would be published in his name in 1729. Though it was an instant success, the credibility of the details in the book would be put into question by later historians. Modern scholars have proven though that many details in the book are authentic and that the story itself is one of the oldest written historical accounts of life in southern Madagascar during the 18th century.

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Born
1687
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Nationality
  • England
Profession
Lived in
  • London
  • Madagascar
    (1745 - 1760)
Died
1743
London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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