Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Volume 1

Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Volume 1

by Robert Paltock

Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man, finds himself stranded on an island after his ship is destroyed. He survives much like Robinson Crusoe did, but is lonely until he is saved by Youwarkee, a woman with wings who can fly. They marry, have children, and live happily ever after. The novel also includes stories about the discovery of strange lands and peoples, similar to the adventures found in Gulliver's Travels.

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Robert Paltock was an English author and moral philosopher who lived in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Not much is known about his personal life, but his works have stood the tes...

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