Combining travel to remote islands and shores with brilliant literary detective work, Seeking Robinson Crusoe is a tale of adventure and discovery and is a fantastic journey into myth and history.Who was the real Robinson Crusoe? In search of the world's most famous castaway Tim Severin travels wher
THE ALLEGORY OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
โ Scribed by GEORGE PARKER
- Book ID
- 115236978
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1925
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 856 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0018-2648
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The book starts with the statement about Crusoe's marriage in England. He bought a little farm in Bedford and had three children: two sons and one daughter. Our hero suffered a distemper and a desire to see "his island." He could talk of nothing else, and one can imagine that no one took his stories