About this Text
A Cruising Voyage round the World by Woodes Rogers tells the tale of the author’s adventure in the Atlantic Ocean. The majority of his movements take place in the Caribbean and South America. Rogers and his crew leave from England and head west to Puna and Guayaquil. They see various countries in the South Seas. They go to several popular ports such as Batavia and the Cape of Good Hope, both of which are visited in An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon.
Rogers has many adventures throughout his travels around the world. The taking of Puna and Guayaquil (two important coastal towns) as well as the discovery of Alexander Selkirk are notable events. In the episode of Selkirk’s discovery, readers might remember that his story is widely accepted as one of the inspirations for Robinson Crusoe. In fact, the accessible edition online is a combination of Selkirk’s and Crusoe’s stories (with Selkirk getting the first half of the book and Crusoe the second). So while the plot of this book is quite different from that of Robinson Crusoe in terms of specific locations, they should have some overlap, especially in the South American and Caribbean regions.
The edition that was used in the mapping process of this project was from Project Gutenberg. Although this is by no means the authoritative edition of the novel, I needed a clean txt file in order to perform the computations. This edition was also choose to match Crusoe, as the edition which was mapped was also a Gutenburg.
