The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: (Illustrated) by Daniel Defoe Paperback Book

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Author: Daniel Defoe

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Publisher: Rdl Publishing Ltd

Published: Dec 1969

Genre: Fiction - Action & Adventure

Ages: 08 - 12

Pages: 242

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"The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" illustrated, one of a kind. The Life and Adventures of 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 the coasts of Venezuela and 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. This edition contains 10 illustrations by Dino Di Lena, a renowned italian artist.

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