In Search of the Red Slave by Mike Parker Pearson and Karen Godden, Sutton, 拢14.99, ISBN 0750929383 Reviewed by Mike Pitts
IN 1717 Robert Drury returned to London having survived shipwreck, massacre and 14 years as a slave in Madagascar. His journal was published in 1729 to small acclaim, and almost forgotten until more than a century later, when a French writer suggested it was fiction. Perhaps, literary critics then argued, it had been cobbled together by Daniel Defoe and published under a pseudonym.
For Parker Pearson and Karen Godden, authors of In Search of the Red Slave, the truth…
