The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Vol. 2

by Daniel Defoe

Survival, craft, and courage drive a yearlong plan to return to sea on a rugged island.

In this installment, Crusoe continues his patient, practical life on the island. He crafts a boat, rigs a mast and sail, and trains his companion Friday in rudimentary navigation and sailing. Amid careful harvests and shelter-building, danger returns in the form of wolves and hostile terrain, testing his resolve and resourcefulness.

See a real-world approach to building a boat from scraps, including making a mast, sail, and rudder.Watch the partnership between Crusoe and Friday grow, as they prepare for a voyage and face threats together.Experience tense moments of danger from wildlife and the elements, balanced with methodical problem-solving.Learn how provisions, fortifications, and early navigation ideas shape a planned escape. Ideal for readers who enjoy classic adventure, survival ingenuity, and nautical problem-solving in a famed Robinson Crusoe narrative.

239 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1719

About the author

Daniel Defoe was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts, was often in trouble with the authorities, and spent a period in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to his fresh ideas and sometimes consulted him.
Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than three hundred works—books, pamphlets, and journals—on diverse topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of business journalism and economic journalism.

Reviews

[hugo sailer]

very interesting.

[Feirodenn]

La suite oubliée de Robinson Crusoe n'en est pas moins intéressante d'un point de vue de l'histoire littéraire et de l'histoire des idées. Ce voyage imaginaire reprend tous les codes du voyage littéraire et les stéréotypes des pays visités. On y retrouve le regard du colonisateur obsédé par la volonté d'apprivoiser la nature et de civiliser les indigènes. Le christianisme est montré comme salvateur et civilisateur pour des nations à l'ignorance crasse dont le paganisme est décrit sous un jour extrêmement négatif. À lire pour les curieux et ceux qui s'intéressent au XVIIIe siècle, même si les idées de l'auteur ont mal vieilli.

[Gordon Bagshaw]

To think that Robinson Crusoe is fiction is most impressive. The detailed imagination of Daniel Defoe is breathtaking. One could almost believe that the adventures depicted in this classic actually happened to the author. Marvelous work.

[Noushad]

I want that life