Shipwreck Adventurer's Fiction Revealed As True After 270 Years

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 10-13-2002 | Robin McKie

[txzman]

Interesting bit of history. Bottom line - don't piss off native island warriors without your M16 handy.

[babyface00]

Slave owners in Madagascar?! I thought only white, Southern Americans owned slaves. /sarcasm

[gaijin]

compensation!

I demand to be made whole!

[BushMeister]

compensation!

I demand to be made whole!

Well, about the only thing they can pay you with is Lemurs!

[blam]

Ping, ping.

[FreeLibertarian]

Thanks for the ping, interesting story!

[aruanan]

Slave owners in Madagascar?! I thought only white, Southern Americans owned slaves. /sarcasm

Yeah, the wealth of that international superpower Madagascar was built on the backs of (mostly) black slaves. Charter your flight, Dorothy Tillman, and go see how much you can squeeze out of the descendents of these slave owners.

[JudyB1938]

What a fun story!

Just goes to prove that scoffers aren't always right!

[VOA]

Helluva story...makes shows like "Survivor" look pretty wimpy...

[Boomer Geezer]

Thanks for the ping, blam. Quite an interesting read.

[jimtorr]

I just found this story through archaeologica.com myself. I recall reading this book when I was a boy. Very exciting at times, as I recall, though written in an archaic style. Still easier to read than Robert Burns & Co., though.

It just goes to show that "experts" who don't do their research are not experts at all. It would have been simple to prove that Robert Drury actually did exist. Even 200 years ago.

[lucyblue]

BUMP!

Thanks for the 'ping'!

[manna]

Thanks for the ping ...

[Marie Antoinette]

Thanks, Blam. Makes you wonder what other assumptions conventionally accepted as true are just WRONG!

[SunkenCiv]

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany.

[Grizzled Bear]

Well, about the only thing they can pay you with is Lemurs!
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[Doomonyou]

And a lot of mags...

[visualops]

wow great story with a story. Very interesting too that they think Defoe was the editor.