The 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

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• The 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
• Memoirs of Majr. Alexander Ramkins

People / Organizations

• Alexander Ramkins (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for W. Boreham at the Angel in Pater-noster-Row, 1720 [i.e. 1719].

Added name

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, attributed name.

Publication year

1719

ESTC No.

T69372

Grub Street ID

293381

Description

[2],182p. ; 12°.

Note

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)

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