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A remarkable literary hybrid-part biography, part detective story-about the enduring figure of Robinson Crusoe   Where did Crusoe come from? Frank explores the intertwined lives of two real men, Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox, and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction.   January 1719. A man sits at a table, writing. Nearly sixty, Daniel Defoe is troubled with gout and mired in political controversy and legal threats....

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.

A collection of seven critical essays on "Robinson Crusoe" arranged in chronological order of their original publication.