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The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner : who lived eight and twenty years, all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque, having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself with an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates, written by himself  Cover Image E-book E-book

The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner : who lived eight and twenty years, all alone in an un-inhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river of Oroonoque, having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself with an account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by pyrates, written by himself / Daniel Defoe ; edited with an introduction and notes by J. Donald Crowley.

Summary:

Crusoe leaves the English coast for Africa and finds himself the sole survivor of a shipwreck. On a desert island, he finds another human footprint on the shore, encounters cannibals, and befriends a native.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780191592546
  • ISBN: 0191592544
  • ISBN: 0585356742
  • ISBN: 9780585356747
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 316 pages) : illustrations, maps.
  • Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1998.

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General Note:
Originally issued in series: World's classics.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxviii).
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Shipwreck survival > Fiction.
Castaways > Fiction.
Solitude > Fiction.
Islands > Fiction.
Genre: Action and adventure fiction.
Electronic books.
Fiction.

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