Robinson Crusoe and the Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Adlard Coles Maritime Classics) - Softcover

Defoe, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472913922 ISBN 13: 9781472913920

Publisher: Adlard Coles, 2015

Synopsis

Running away to sea to escape a legal career, Robinson Crusoe ends up having rather more excitement than he'd bargained for in this infamous adventure yarn by Daniel Defoe. Only just surviving his first storm at sea, Crusoe goes on to become a successful merchant, until he's seized by pirates on his second voyage. He manages to escape and reinvents himself once more in his second career as a plantation owner. Lured to sea again as part of a slave-gathering expedition, Crusoe finds himself shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad and in his third and most famous role - the original castaway. Crusoe salvages what he can from his wreck and establishes an existence on the island, as well as fitting in a religious conversion, adopting a pet parrot and goat, saving Friday from cannibals, seizing a ship from its mutineers and sails her back to England, to find that things have changed in the 3 decades that he's been away... Published in 1719, although many early readers initially assumed that Robinson Crusoe was a factual autobiography of a real man named Crusoe, the book was actually the first example of realistic fiction. It was a popular innovation, being reprinted four times in its first year, and going on to have a huge influence on writers as diverse as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Beatrix Potter, and has been adapted many times for stage and screen. Unusually, this edition also includes The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, where the action returns to the island and other exotic locations including Madagascar, Cambodia and Siberia. There is also a map showing the location of Robinson Crusoe Island, and Crusoe's onward journey.

About this title

Review:

An introduction by a modern-day writer with special expertise to enliven the fiction. (All at Sea)

Book Description:

Arguably one of the most influential books of all time, this beautifully-produced classic edition also includes The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, new maps and a Foreword by bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears.

About this edition

• Publisher: Adlard Coles
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1472913922
• ISBN 13: 9781472913920
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544