Featured on PDR in the collection The Hermit; or, The Unparalleled Sufferings, and Surprising Adventures, of Philip Quarll (1814)

A story thought to be by Peter Longueville - writing under the pseudonym of Edward Dorrington - about Philip Quarll, a Crusoe-style castaway, who spends 50 years alone on an uninhabited island island of monkeys and pomegranate fields far off the coast of Mexico. When eventually he is eventually found in 1715 by the narrator Edward Dorrington - an 18th-century trader from Bristol, England - Quarll refuses to leave his island, carefully explaining to his would-be rescuer that he would not dream of leaving the place he now considered home. In the course of his 50 years Quarll had become the self-appointed king of ""his country', and at the time of Dorrington's arrival, was accompanied everywhere he went by a loyal monkey as a sidekick.…

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Detail from the frontispiece of The Hermit

Date

1814

From

The Hermit or, the Unparalleled Sufferings and Surprising Adventures of Philip Quarll, an Englishman


Source

Internet Archive / University of Toronto Libraries

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