This was the first of three great books which pleased both men and children in the eighteenth century. The others are _Robinson Crusoe_[10] and _The Travels and Adventures of Captain Lemuel Gulliver_.[11] Each, in its own kind, is a _Voyage Imaginaire_ and the unwrought matter of all three was to be found in chap-books. The tale of the shipwrecked man had never been told with such apparent truth as in _Robinson Crusoe_. Readers of the chap-book history of Drake, who were familiar with accounts of “Monsters and Monstrous People”, would read this sober journal as the purest matter of fact; nor was there anything beyond belief in Gulliver’s adventures, to anyone who knew the pedlar’s book of _Sir John Mandeville_. For here, among greater marvels, was a notable account of giants and pigmies.