A Voyage to the Island Home of Robinson Crusoe
Author | : Waldo Lasalle Schmitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Juan Fernández Islands |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Waldo Lasalle Schmitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Juan Fernández Islands |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : Ags Pub |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1994-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780785407706 |
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | : |
An adaptation of the story of Robinson Crusoe who was shipwrecked on an island, how he survived and was finally rescued. Rewritten "in words easy for every child, ... shortened by leaving out all the dull parts."
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2020-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)-a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966
Author | : Timothy Severin |
Publisher | : Pan |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Castaways |
ISBN | : 9780330486774 |
This work explores the legend behind Daniel Defoe's classic novel, visiting possible places where this famous literary character could have been marooned. It also re-examines the claim that Crusoe was based on a real life castaway, Alexander Selkirk.
Author | : Thurston Clarke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
They inspire feelings of great passion, serenity, and sometimes fear . . . they give people the opportunity to find themselves--or to lose their minds . . . they are revered as paradise or treated as junkyards . . . both haunted by and respectful of history . . . they are central to the myths and religions of many peoples throughout time . . . they provide a real, friendly community or the hell of repetitive social encounters . . . What is it about islands that has captivated millions of people around the world and through the centuries? In a penetrating, brilliantly written book that weaves sociology, history, politics, personality, and ancient and popular culture into one compelling narrative, Thurston Clarke island-hops around the oceans of the world, searching for an explanation for the most passionate and enduring geographic love affair of all time--between humankind and islands. Along the way Clarke visits the remote and silent Mas À Tierra, the island off the coast of Chile that inspired Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe; tropical Banda Neira, one of the Spice Islands, where its self-crowned prince hopes for nothing less than nutmeg's complete and glorious revival; sleepy, simple Campobello, the Canadian island where Franklin D. Roosevelt spent his boyhood summers; Patmos, with its imposing mountaintop monastery; Malekula, once the most notorious cannibal island in the world; and Jura in Scotland's Hebrides, where George Orwell wrote 1984--the island that turned Clarke into a islomane, someone Lawrence Durrell says experiences an "indescribable intoxication" at finding himself in "a little world surrounded by the sea." Despite colonialism and missionary conversions, wartime scars and shrinking coasts, islands have thrived. Though each island is unique in its own way, Clarke discovers that the islanders themselves are a distinct people-- tranquilized by their watery horizons yet sensitive to the first shift in weather, conservative yet more likely to drop their inhibitions because no one is looking. And over every island falls the shadow of Robinson Crusoe, persuading us that islands are more liberating than confining, more contemplative than lonely, more holy than barbaric because we have been "removed from all the wickedness of the world." In a stunning work of wit, adventure, and incisive exploration, Thurston Clarke brings a unique passion to dazzling life.
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Castaways |
ISBN | : 9781774374757 |
"On Robinson Crusoe's first seafaring voyage, his ship sinks in a violent storm. On his second voyage he is enslaved by pirates. When Crusoe braves the ocean after several years in Brazil, Providence leaves him as the sole survivor of a shipwreck on a deserted island. Confronted by hunger and the elements, Crusoe builds a home, grows crops, tames wild animals, and survives cannibals and mutineers by his wits and the qualities of his cultural upbringing. But while Crusoe has conquered his island, he is affected most by his isolation from civilization. Robinson Crusoe is widely regarded as the first English novel. No book in the history of Western literature had spawned more editions, spin-offs, and translations. Adaptations include The Swiss Family Robinson, the Hollywood film Cast Away, and nbc's tv series Crusoe. The story was likely influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway in 1704 who spent four years and four months on the Pacific island Juan Fernández which was later changed to Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966."--Publisher's description.
Author | : Douglas Frazar |
Publisher | : London [etc.] Blackie & son |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2023-08-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3387000278 |
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : epubli |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2019-10-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 375024796X |
Robinson Crusoe was born in York in 1632 as the son of a merchant. He ignores its father's warnings and goes to sea, where it is caught by pirates. After an adventurous escape, he arrives in Brazil and quickly makes a considerable fortune through skilful trade and acquires a sugar plantation. To buy these new scalves, he makes his way to Guinea. Crusoe is the only member of the crew to survive a storm on this voyage. He is stranded on a remote island in the Orinoco estuary, where he tries to survive as best he can despite various adver-sities in order to be rescued.