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Listed by Abraham Lincoln, alongside the Bible and Pilgrim’s Progress , as one of the books that most influenced his life, few true tales of adventure and survival are as astonishing as this one. Shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in August of 1815, James Riley and his crew... read more
First Sentence
I WAS born in the town of Middletown, in the state of Connecticut, on the 27th of October, in the year 1777, during the war between England and America, which terminated in 1783, with the acknowlegment by the mother country of the freedom, sovereignty, and independence of the thirteen United States.
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- James Riley (Author)
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