Robinson Crusoe

This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirates Robinson Crusoe is swept ashore in a storm possessing only a knife a box of tobacco a pipe-and the will to survive. His is the saga of a man alone: a man who overcomes self-pity and despair to reconstruct his life; who painstakingly teaches himself how to fashion a pot bake bread build a canoe; and who after twenty-four agonizing years of solitude discovers a human footprint in the sand... Consistently popular since its first publication in 1719 Daniel Defoe's story of human endurance in an exotic faraway land exerts a timeless appeal. The first important English novel <b>Robinson Crusoe</b> has taken its rightful place among the great myths of Western civilization.