The complete online text of Of Captain Mission by Daniel Defoe.

The English novelist, journalist, poet, and government agent Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, articles, and poems. Among the most productive authors of the Augustan Age, he was the first of the great 18th-century English nov...

Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; with the success of that work, he went on to write a sequel which was only slig...

Daniel Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; with the success of that work, he went on to write a sequel that was onl...

MILLWALL club captain Stuart Nethercott will make his first start in the league since early December if the game at Colchester goes ahead tonight, writes Leo Spall. A pitch inspection will be held at Layer Road later today as wet weather has put...

In promoting its activities, the London Missionary Society (LMS) openly acknowledged the importance of the late eighteenth-century enthusiasm for the adventures of Captains Cook, Bligh, and Wallis. (1) What has received less attention is the extent to which the mission emulated these great...