Robinson Crusoe: His Life and Strange Surprising Adventures
Defoe, Daniel / Lines, Kathleen / Linton, W. J.
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 can...