Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York

First published in 1719, this novel presents itself as the memoir of Robinson Crusoe, a York mariner who, against his father's advice, goes to sea, is enslaved, escapes, and becomes a planter. After a shipwreck he is cast alone on an island off the South American coast, where he salvages tools, builds a shelter, keeps a calendar, grows food, and later meets the man he names Friday. The narrative follows years of solitude, fear of cannibals, and the making of a private economy and piety. It is a first-person adventure and spiritual journal, not a romance of courtship. Rescue returns him at last to the world of trade.

Bound in light brown cloth printed in black with a wrap-around picture, metallic green spine panel. Dark green slipcase.