Daniel Defoe is best known as the author of "Robinson Crusoe," published in 1719. However between 1724 and 1726 he published the three volume work, "A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain." This is a superb and detailed account of what Great Britain was like on the eve of the industrial and agricultural revolutions, written in a matter-of-fact style that comes over as surprisingly modern.The three volumes are written in the form of 13 "letters," each describing a tour undertaken by Defoe.
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Robinson Crusoe es una de las más conocidas novelas de aventuras. Cuenta la historia de un hombre que naufragó cerca de una isla desierta y pasó en ella más de veinticinco años. El protagonista tiene que empezar a vivir practicamente desde cero, enfrentandose a los desafios de la vida salvaje y a la terrible carga de la soledad. Parece ser que Defoe se inspiro en un caso real: la historia del marinero escoces Alexander Selkirk, que fue abandonado en una isla cercana a la costa de Chile (que hoy se llama isla Robinson) y logro sobrevivir durante cinco años, hasta que fue rescatado.
Gadir nos presenta esta obra de Daniel Defoe, hasta hoy inédita en castellano y en parte autobiográfica. En este libro, el autor nos sumerge en la vida de Jack, un joven de los bajos fondos de Londres, cuyo espiritu aventurero lo lleva a ser prisionero. El escenario des la America española de principios del siglo XVIII
The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far away from any shipping routes. With patience and ingenuity, he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For twenty-four years he has no human company, until one Friday, he rescues a prisoner from a boat of cannibals. Aimed at young readers, this adventure-themed collection of adapted classic books will entertain youngsters with characters and storylines that seek to foster their love for reading. These classics are a great way for young readers to start building their very own library.
Robinson Crusoe was born in York in 1632 as the son of a merchant. He ignores its fathers warnings and goes to sea, where it is caught by pirates. After an adventurous escape, he arrives in Brazil and quickly makes a considerable fortune through skilful trade and acquires a sugar plantation. To buy these new scalves, he makes his way to Guinea. Crusoe is the only member of the crew to survive a storm on this voyage. He is stranded on a remote island in the Orinoco estuary, where he tries to survive as best he can despite various adver-sities in order to be rescued.
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.
