TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knox,Robert
TI  - An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies: Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape
AV  - DS 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Sri Lanka -- Social life and customs
KW  - Sri Lanka -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Historical_Relation_of_the_Island_Ceylon; Release date is 2004-12-13; Produced by Michael Ciesielski, Jeroen Hellingman, and the PG
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N2  - "An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies" by Robert Knox is a book written in 1681. It recounts Knox's nineteen years as a prisoner in the Kingdom of Kandy after being captured during a trading voyage. Written during his return journey to England, the book offers detailed observations of Sinhalese life, customs, and society in seventeenth-century Sri Lanka. Its direct, practical style influenced Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" and helped shape the development of the English novel. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14346
ER  -