Much later, Crusoe discovers an orgiastic cannibal feast and helps rescue a captive to whom he gives the name Friday. Later still, mutineers land on the island, but Crusoe and Friday, through ...

“Robinson Crusoe is a long book and it is incorrect in dozens of ways to give Selkirk as the major source.” In 1704, Alexander Selkirk was marooned on Más a Tierra. In 1966, Chile renamed it ...

“The Christian religion and the doctrine of Providence are too sacred to be delivered in fictions and lies,” he thundered. THE idea that religion is an inessential, even an insincere, part of Robinson ...

Crusoe’s near-death from fever leads to spiritual awakening and repentance. He recognizes disobedience to his father as his Original Sin, learns to trust in Providence and totes up his blessings ...

The book is “Robinson Crusoe,” written by Defoe and first published in 1719. ... He has formed the deepest friendship of his life with Friday, a man he rescued from death.

After spending 28 years, two months and 19 days marooned on an island, Robinson Crusoe does not lose his nose for adventure or his “native propensity to rambling”. He crosses the Pyrenees ...