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Affecting narrative of the loss of the Thames smack, Captain Craiggy, which, ... was run on the Nore Sand, Tuesday, February 8, 1809

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Affecting narrative of the loss of the Thames smack, Captain Craiggy, which, ... was run on the Nore Sand, Tuesday, February 8, 1809
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Description	Also the sufferings of Alexander Selkirk, who was left on a desolate island, on which the story of Robinson Crusoe is founded.
Shelfmark	ABS.1.79.159
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Pamphlets
Dates / events:	1809 [Probable date published] 1809 [Probable date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Shipwrecks Sailing vessels Fishing Desert islands Shoals (landforms)
Person / organisation:	Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845 [Publisher] Plummer, Thomas, active 1798-1836 [Printer] Captain Craiggy (Ship) [Subject of text] Selkirk, Alexander, 1676-1721 [Subject of text]
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Description	Thousands of printed books from the Antiquarian Books of Scotland collection which dates from 1641 to the 1980s. The collection consists of 14,800 books which were published in Scotland or have a Scottish connection, e.g. through the author, printer or owner. Subjects covered include sport, education, diseases, adventure, occupations, Jacobites, politics and religion. Among the 29 languages represented are English, Gaelic, Italian, French, Russian and Swedish.