The life and surprizing adventures of Don Antonio de Trezzanio, Who was Self-Educated, and lived Forty-Five Years in an uninhabited Island in the East-Indies. Containing his Birth in a Monastery; his being committed to the Sea in a Chest; his being cast on a desolate Island in the East-Indies; his being found by a Roe, with the remarkable. Tenderness with which she nourished and brought him up, till able to shift for himself; the Language he learnt, and the Method he made use of for his Defence from the wild Beasts; an Account of the different Sorts of Provision, and manner of providing it; the Death of the old Roe, and his great Grief thereon; his extraordinary Surprize at meeting with Salandio a Mendicant Fryar, who came there to live a Hermit's Life; Salandio teaches him to speak, and instructs him in Religious Principles; Antonio proposes to go off the Island, which Salandio consents to; their Arrival at Goa, where he enjoys Ease, Plenty and Respect. Adorned with Copper-Plates.
- Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, -1185.
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- [1761]
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Philosophus autodidactus. English. Abridgments
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London : printed for H. Serjeant, at the Star, without Temple-Bar, [1761]
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[2],158p.,plates ; 80.
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ESTC T62081
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