Robinson Crusoe - online book

The Famous Tale of the English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote
tropical island. By Daniel Defoe Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth

This version Published By Cosmopolitan Book Corp, New York, Circa 1920

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TCrusoe leaves England setting sail from the Queens Dock in Hull on a sea voyage in September, 1651, against the wishes of his parents. After a tumultuous journey that sees his ship wrecked by a vicious storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. This journey too ends in disaster as the ship is taken over by Salé pirates and Crusoe becomes the slave of a Moor. He manages to escape with a boat and a boy named Xury; later, Robin is befriended by the Captain of a Portuguese ship off the western coast of Africa. The ship is enroute to Brazil. There, with the help of the captain, Crusoe becomes owner of a plantation. He joins an expedition to bring slaves from Africa, but he is shipwrecked in a storm about forty miles out to sea on an island near the mouth of the Orinoco river on September 30, 1659. His companions all die; he fetches arms, tools, and other supplies from the ship before it breaks apart and sinks. He then gets battered by huge waves as he struggles to make it to an unknown island. He proceeds to build a fenced-in habitation and cave. He keeps a calendar by making marks in a wooden cross he builds. He hunts, grows corn, learns to make pottery, raises goats, etc. He reads the Bible and suddenly becomes religious, thanking God for his fate in which nothing is missing but society.

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Front Cover Frontispiece Frontispiece Title Page ILLUSTRATOR'S PREFACE PREFACE CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS CONTENTS THE ILLUSTRATIONS THE ILLUSTRATIONS "My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed All this while I sat upon the ground, very much terrified and dejected In the morning I took the Bible; and beginning at the Neiv Testament, I began seriously to read it I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears and thus I every now and then took a little voyage upon the sea I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition I laid me down flat on my belly on the ground, and began to look for the place and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and taking me by the foot we cut and hewed the outside into the true shape of a boat' and we sooner had he the arms in his hands but, as if they had put new vigor into him, he flew upon his murderers like a fury At first, for some time, I was not able to answer him one word; Robinson's Family—His Elopement from His Parents - 0101 Page - 0102 Page - 0103 Page - 0104 Page - 0105 Page - 0106 Page - 0107 First Adventures at Sea, Experience of a Maritime Life Voyage to Guinea - 0108 Page - 0109 Page - 0110 Page - 0111 Page - 0112 Page - 0113 Page - 0114 Page - 0115 Page - 0116 Page - 0117 Page - 0118 Page - 0119 Page - 0120 Robinson's Captivity at Sallee—Escape with Xury—Arrival at the Brazils - 0121 Page - 0122 Page - 0123 Page - 0124 Page - 0125 Page - 0126 Page - 0127 Page - 0128 Page - 0129 Page - 0130 Page - 0131 Page - 0132 Page - 0133 Page - 0134 Page - 0135 Page - 0136 Page - 0137 Page - 0138 Page - 0139 Page - 0140 Page - 0141 He Settles in the Brazils as a Planter—Makes Another Voyage and Is Shipwrecked - 0142 Page - 0143 Page - 0144 Page - 0145 Page - 0146 Page - 0147 Page - 0148 Page - 0149 Page - 0150 Page - 0151 Page - 0152 Page - 0153 Page - 0154 Page - 0155 Page - 0156 Page - 0157 Page - 0158 Page - 0159 Page - 0160 Robinson Finds Himself on a Desolate Island and Procures a Stock of Articles from the Wreck—He Constructs His Habitation - 0161 Page - 0162 Page - 0163 Page - 0164 Page - 0165 Page - 0166 Page - 0167 Page - 0168 Page - 0169 Page - 0170 Page - 0171 Page - 0172 Page - 0173 Page - 0174 Page - 0175 Page - 0176 Robinson Carries All His Riches, Provisions, Etc., into His Habitation—Dreariness of Solitude—Consolatory Reflections - 0177 Page - 0178 Page - 0179 Page - 0180 Page - 0181 Page - 0182 Robinson's Mode of Reckoning Time Difficulties Arising from Want of Tools, He Arranges His Habitation - 0183 Page - 0184 Page - 0185 Page - 0186 Page - 0187 Page - 0188 Page - 0189 Page - 0190 Page - 0191 Page - 0192 Page - 0193 Page - 0194 Page - 0195 Page - 0196 Page - 0197 Page - 0198 Page - 0199 Page - 0200 Page - 0201 Page - 0202 Page - 0203 Page - 0204 Page - 0205 Page - 0206 Page - 0207 Page - 0208 Robinson Obtains More Articles from the Wreck, His Illness and Affliction - 0209 Page - 0210 Page - 0211 Page - 0212 Page - 0213 Page - 0214 Page - 0215 Page - 0216 Page - 0217 Page - 0218 Page - 0219 His Recovery—His Comfort in Reading the Scriptures—He Makes an Excursion into the Interior of the Island—Forms His "Bower - 0220 Page - 0221 Page - 0222 Page - 0223 Page - 0224 Page - 0225 Page - 0226 Page - 0227 Page - 0228 Page - 0229 Page - 0230 Page - 0231 Page - 0232 Page - 0233 Page - 0234 Page - 0235 Page - 0236 Page - 0237 Page - 0238 Robinson Makes a Tour to Explore His Island—Employed in Basket Making - 0239 Page - 0240 Page - 0241 Page - 0242 Page - 0243 Page - 0244 Page - 0245 He Returns to His Cave—His Agricultural Labors and Success - 0246 Page - 0247 Page - 0248 Page - 0249 Page - 0250 Page - 0251 Page - 0252 Page - 0253 Page - 0254 Page - 0255 Page - 0256 His Manufacture of Pottery, and Contrivances for Baking Bread - 0257 Page - 0258 Page - 0259 Page - 0260 Page - 0261 Page - 0262 Page - 0263 Meditates His Escape from the Island—Builds a Canoe—Failure of His Scheme and Resignation to His Condition—He Makes Himself a New Dress - 0264 Page - 0265 Page - 0266 Page - 0267 Page - 0268 Page - 0269 Page - 0270 Page - 0271 Page - 0272	Page - 0273 Page - 0274 Page - 0275 Page - 0276 Page - 0277 Page - 0278 Page - 0279 He Makes a Smaller Canoe in Which He Attempts to Cruise Round the Island—His Perilous Situation at Sea—He Returns Home - 0280 Page - 0281 Page - 0282 Page - 0283 Page - 0284 Page - 0285 Page - 0286 Page - 0287 Page - 0288 Page - 0289 Page - 0290 Page - 0291 He Rears a Flock of Goats—His Diary—His Domestic Habits and Style of Living—Increasing Prosperity - 0292 Page - 0293 Page - 0294 Page - 0295 Page - 0296 Page - 0297 Page - 0298 Page - 0299 Page - 0300 Page - 0301 Page - 0302 Unexpected Alarm—Cause for Apprehension—He Fortifies His Abode - 0303 Page - 0304 Page - 0305 Page - 0306 Page - 0307 Page - 0308 Page - 0309 Page - 0310 Page - 0311 Page - 0312 Page - 0313 Page - 0314 Precautions Against Surprise—Robinson Discovers that His Island Has Been Visited by Cannibals - 0315 Page - 0316 Page - 0317 Page - 0318 Page - 0319 Page - 0320 Page - 0321 Page - 0322 Page - 0323 Page - 0324 Page - 0325 Page - 0326 Page - 0327 Page - 0328 Robinson Discovers a Cave, Which Serves Him as a Retreat Against the Savages - 0329 Page - 0330 Page - 0331 Page - 0332 Page - 0333 Page - 0334 Page - 0335 Page - 0336 Page - 0337 Page - 0338 Page - 0339 Another Visit of the Savages—Robinson Sees Them Dancing—He Perceives the Wreck of a Vessel - 0340 Page - 0341 Page - 0342 Page - 0343 Page - 0344 Page - 0345 Page - 0346 Page - 0347 Page - 0348 He Visits the Wreck and Obtains Many Stores from it—Again Thinks of Quitting the Island—Has a Remarkable Dream - 0349 Page - 0350 Page - 0351 Page - 0352 Page - 0353 Page - 0354 Page - 0355 Page - 0356 Page - 0357 Page - 0358 Page - 0359 Page - 0360 Page - 0361 Page - 0362 Page - 0363 Page - 0364 Page - 0365 Robinson Rescues One of Their Captives from the Savages, Whom He Names Friday, and Makes His Servant - 0366 Page - 0367 Page - 0368 Page - 0369 Page - 0370 Page - 0371 Page - 0372 Page - 0373 Page - 0374 Page - 0375 Page - 0376 Page - 0377 Page - 0378 Robinson Instructs and Civilizes His Man Friday and Endeavors to Give Him an Idea of Christianity - 0379 Page - 0380 Page - 0381 Page - 0382 Page - 0383 Page - 0384 Page - 0385 Page - 0386 Page - 0387 Page - 0388 Page - 0389 Page - 0390 Robinson and Friday Build a Canoe to Carry Them to Friday's Country—Their Scheme Prevented by the Arrival of a Party of Savages - 0391 Page - 0392 Page - 0393 Page - 0394 Page - 0395 Page - 0396 Page - 0397 Page - 0398 Page - 0399 Page - 0400 Page - 0401 Page - 0402 Page - 0403 Page - 0404 Page - 0405 Page - 0406 Page - 0407 Page - 0408 Page - 0409 Robinson Releases a Spaniard—Friday Discovers His Father— Accommodation Provided for These New Guests, Who Were Afterward Sent to Liberate the Other Spaniards—Arrival of an English Vessel - 0410 Page - 0411 Page - 0412 Page - 0413 Page - 0414 Page - 0415 Page - 0416 Page - 0417 Page - 0418 Page - 0419 Page - 0420 Page - 0421 Page - 0422 Page - 0423 Page - 0424 Page - 0425 Page - 0426 Page - 0427 Page - 0428 Page - 0429 Page - 0430 Page - 0431 Page - 0432 Page - 0433 Page - 0434 Robinson Discovers Himself to the English Captain—Assists Him in Reducing His Mutinous Crew, Who Submit to Him - 0435 Page - 0436 Page - 0437 Page - 0438 Page - 0439 Page - 0440 Page - 0441 Page - 0442 Page - 0443 Page - 0444 Page - 0445 Page - 0446 Page - 0447 Page - 0448 Page - 0449 Page - 0450 Page - 0451 Page - 0452 Page - 0453 Page - 0454 Atkins Entreats the Captain to Spare His Life—The Latter Recovers His Vessel from the Mutineers, and Robinson Leaves the Island - 0455 Page - 0456 Page - 0457 Page - 0458 Page - 0459 Page - 0460 Page - 0461 Page - 0462 Page - 0463 Page - 0464 Page - 0465 Page - 0466 Page - 0467 Page - 0468

Robinson Crusoe - online book

The Famous Tale of the English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island. By Daniel Defoe Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth

This version Published By Cosmopolitan Book Corp, New York, Circa 1920

The Famous Tale of the English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote
tropical island. By Daniel Defoe Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth