An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies

Name: An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies
Author: Robert Knox

by Robert Knox

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An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Michael Ciesielski, Jeroen Hellingman, and the PG Distributed Proofreaders Team.

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2004-12-13

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Public domain in the USA.

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Sri Lanka -- Social life and customs Sri Lanka -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800

About the author

Robert Knox

d. 1720

An English sea captain turned travel writer after nearly 20 years in captivity in Ceylon, he produced one of the best-known firsthand accounts of the island in the 17th century. His adventures at sea, imprisonment, escape, and return to England gave his writing an immediacy that still feels vivid today.

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