Robinson Crusoe

“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”

“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
Robinson Crusoe, often called the first English novel, was written by Daniel Defoe and published in 1719. The novel is the tale of one man’s survival on a desert island following a shipwreck. At the time of publishing, the book didn’t carry Defoe’s name, and it was offered to the public as a true account of real events, documented by a real man named Crusoe. But readers were immediately sceptical.

Alone on a desert island, Crusoe manages to survive thanks to his pluck and pragmatism. He keeps himself sane by keeping a diary, manages to build himself a shelter, and finds a way of salvaging useful goods from the wrecked ship. Twelve years pass in this way, until one momentous day, Crusoe finds a single human footprint in the sand.