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  • Published: 1 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780553213737
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $14.99

Robinson Crusoe





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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, Robinson Crusoe has taken its rightful place among the great myths of Western civilization.

  • Published: 1 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780553213737
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $14.99

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