Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Willem van de Velde the Younger, Willem van de Velde the Elder and Simon de Vlieger. The privateering voyage of 1708-11 round the world - and the day the ship took a marooned Scotsman off Juan Fernandez after four years and four months alone. Rogers brought Alexander Selkirk home, published this account, and Defoe read it before writing Robinson Crusoe. This edition is bound with 60 plates of maritime painting, among them works by J. M. W. Turner and Ivan Aivazovsky.