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Robinson Crusoe: TreeTops Classics
These portable, handy sized classics are a great addition to your collection or they make a great gift item. All are hardcover editions in imitation red leather with golden foil stamping. Includes a red ribbon marker.
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First published June 15, 2000
About the author
Anthony Masters
262 books13 followersAnthony Masters was a writer, educator and humanitarian of exceptional gifts and prodigious energy. He was, in the parlance of his spiritual ancestors, the ancient mariners, that rare voyager "as gracious as a trade wind and as dependable as an anchor".
He leaves 11 works of adult fiction – notably, Conquering Heroes (1969), Red Ice (1986, with Nicholas Barker), The Men (1997), The Good and Faithful Servant (1999) and Lifers (2001) – and was in the process of completing another, Dark Bridges, which he thought would be his best. Many of these works carry deep insights into social problems that he gained, over four decades, by helping the socially excluded, be it by running soup kitchens for drug addicts or by campaigning for the civic rights of gypsies and other ethnic minorities.
His non-fiction output was typically eclectic. It ranged from the biographies of such diverse personalities as Hannah Senesh (The Summer that Bled, 1972), Mikhail Bakunin (Bakunin: the father of anarchism, 1974), Nancy Astor (Nancy Astor: a life, 1981) and the British secret service chief immortalised by Ian Fleming in his James Bond books (The Man Who Was M: the life of Maxwell Knight, 1984), to a history of the notorious asylum Bedlam (Bedlam, 1977).
He leaves 11 works of adult fiction – notably, Conquering Heroes (1969), Red Ice (1986, with Nicholas Barker), The Men (1997), The Good and Faithful Servant (1999) and Lifers (2001) – and was in the process of completing another, Dark Bridges, which he thought would be his best. Many of these works carry deep insights into social problems that he gained, over four decades, by helping the socially excluded, be it by running soup kitchens for drug addicts or by campaigning for the civic rights of gypsies and other ethnic minorities.
His non-fiction output was typically eclectic. It ranged from the biographies of such diverse personalities as Hannah Senesh (The Summer that Bled, 1972), Mikhail Bakunin (Bakunin: the father of anarchism, 1974), Nancy Astor (Nancy Astor: a life, 1981) and the British secret service chief immortalised by Ian Fleming in his James Bond books (The Man Who Was M: the life of Maxwell Knight, 1984), to a history of the notorious asylum Bedlam (Bedlam, 1977).
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September 28, 2022
A really enjoyable read for my daughter and I. This is a much abridged version of the original. Pleasingly for a childrens book, the cannibals are kept in, to illustrate that youngsters *can* cope with 'mild peril' every once in a while. All of the gory details are kept out and only brief mention made of them but it *is* welcome that something so integral to the story is kept in. The rest of the story is reproduced as diary entries which illustrate the years passing and the challenges Robinson Crusoe faces. My daughter cheered when Friday was rescued and the protagonists eventually escaped.
March 31, 2026
Umh... apparently I got a severely abridged version of this book. It's less than 100 pages. I was horribly confused while reading the reviews of the full version before I looked up the ISBN and realized my error. It seems I missed out on religious fervor, more racism, and greater violence? I read it in less than an hour, although it was pretty dull. It also jumped around a ton, and the details are minimal. Even so, I'm not sure I'll pursue the longer version. If this is essentially the Cliff's Notes version, I'm cool to skip the rest.
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