Robinson Crusoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland : The Floating Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robinson Crusoe is the fictional autobiography of the title character. As a young man, Crusoe sets out from England on a disastrous sea voyage. His passion for seafaring remains undiminished and so he sets out again, only to be shipwrecked a third time. His journey takes him to Brazil where he becomes a plantation owner. A third and final shipwrecking, however, leaves him stranded for 28 years on a remote island. There he becomes a devout Christian and believes his life lacks...

Contents:

Title; Contents; Chapter I Start in Life; Chapter II Slavery and Escape; Chapter III Wrecked on a Desert Island; Chapter IV First Weeks on the Island; Chapter V Builds a House The Journal; Chapter VI Ill and ConscienceStricken; Chapter VII Agricultural Experience; Chapter VIII Surveys His Position; Chapter IX A Boat; Chapter X Tames Goats; Chapter XI Finds Print of Man''s Foot on the Sand; Chapter XII A Cave Retreat; Chapter XIII Wreck of a Spanish Ship; Chapter XIV A Dream Realised; Chapter XV Friday''s Education; Chapter XVI Rescue of Prisoners from Cannibals

Chapter XVII Visit of MutineersChapter XVIII The Ship Recovered; Chapter XIX Return to England; Chapter XX Fight Between Friday and a Bear

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77556-389-8

OCLC:

630530514