Davis, Richard [2]
Entry updated 16 March 2026. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of the unidentified author (? -? ) of The Life and Surprizing Adventures of Crusoe Richard Davis (1756 2vols), a Fantastic Voyage in which Davis, astray in Greenland, discovers a clement Utopia inland (see Lost Race), from which he travels by a floating Island to a country of benign midgets; in the meantime, the strange shrubs on the island itself turn out to be intelligent feathered beings, one of whom he marries. They travel together to her aboriginal homeland, which – with the help of wreckage from a ship – he transforms into a prosperous mercantile enterprise typical of the Robinsonade. The couple proving fertile, further adventures with his wife and family ensue. [JC]
"Richard Davis"
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- The Life and Surprizing Adventures of Crusoe Richard Davis (London: R Baldwin, 1756) [published in two volumes: binding unknown/]
- The Voyages and Discoveries of Crusoe Richard Davis, the Son of a Clergyman in Cumberland; Whose Life Exhibits more Remarkable Incidents than the Existence of any Human Being in the Known World has Hitherto Afforded (London: S Fisher and T Hurst, 1801) [vt of the above: binding unknown/]
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