Crusoe : Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the creation of a myth / Katherine Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Katherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731--Characters--Robinson Crusoe.

Defoe, Daniel.

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe.

Knox, Robert, 1640?-1720.

Knox, Robert.

Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character).

Crusoe, Robinson.

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Castaways in literature.

Physical Description:

338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Pegasus cloth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pegasus Books, 2012.

Summary:

"January 1719. A man sits at a table, writing. Nearly sixty, Daniel Defoe is troubled with gout and mired in political controversy and legal threats. But for the moment he is preoccupied by a younger man on a barren shore Robinson Crusoe. Several miles south, another old man, Robert Knox, sits bent over a heavy volume published nearly forty years before. Knox's 'Historical Relation' was a best seller when it was published in 1681, just a year after he escaped from Ceylon and returned to England. Where did Crusoe come from? And what is the secret of his endurance? Crusoe explores the intertwined lives of two real men, Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox, and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction. It is the biography of a book and its hero: the story of Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe." -- Provided by Publisher.

Contents:

Two writing men

Crusoe's secret

'Captivated'

Shipwrecked by land

'Having but little and wanting lesse'

Escape

Another escape

Stranger, author, captain

Captain Knox recaptivated

St. Helena

Captain Knox and Captain Singleton

Ancient mariners

Epilogue.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781605983349

1605983349

OCLC:

755704997