Over the course of 28 years, Crusoe adapts to the life on the island, building shelters and finding food. His resilience, ...

L. Megroz’s The Real Robinson Crusoe. The past four years have seen the publication of three distinct and well-researched books. One of the oldest accounts, 1829’s The Life and Adventures of ...

Backscheider in Daniel Defoe: His Life (1989) dismisses Knox as an “inferior writer”. Even a specific book on the subject, Tim Severin’s Seeking Robinson Crusoe (2002), ignores Knox. Instead, Severin ...

A man known as Italy's Robinson Crusoe who lived alone on an idyllic island for 32 years following a shipwreck has died. Mauro Morandi, who died on January 3 aged 85, lived as a hermit on the Isle ...