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The texts collected in this book are all produced and located within the converging fields of navigation and displacement. The connection between navigation and narration becomes clear when we realise that most of the authors and heroes of the accounts discussed by the author were, in one way or another, involved in shipping and navigation and that their accounts were produced within fluid and floating spaces and in the course of intriguing voyages and long cruises. In all cases, these narratives start with the narrators on board ships and end with them once again taking charge of their ships and sailing back home. In this book, the author argues that the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English narratives of adventure and captivity were not produced within clearly demarcated territories and on dry land, but within spaces of indeterminacy, struggle, and transition.

English prose literature --- Captivity narratives --- Adventure stories, English --- Slaves in literature --- Navigation in literature --- Colonies in literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism --- Slavery in literature. --- Navigation in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- History and criticism. --- English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism --- English prose literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Captivity narratives - Great Britain --- Adventure stories, English - History and criticism --- Littérature anglaise --- Esclavage --- Navigation --- Narration --- Colonies --- Captivité --- 18e siècle --- 17e siècle --- Dans la littérature --- Rhétorique --- Histoire et critique