The man who survived twenty-eight years alone on a desert island still couldn't stay home. After returning to England, marrying, and accumulating wealth, Robinson Crusoe feels an irresistible pull back to sea. He leaves his comfortable life behind and sets sail once more, drawn by the same restless spirit that shipwrecked him years before. This second volume follows his return to the island colony he established, and his subsequent travels across the world to places like Madagascar, Sumatra, and the coast of Asia. Defoe transforms his famous survivor into an explorer of darker impulses, a man who discovers that some hungers cannot be satisfied by any amount of domestic happiness. The novel is both adventure and philosophical inquiry into what drives human beings to risk everything for the unknown. It also presents a complex, often troubling portrait of colonialism and encounter with other cultures, rendered through Crusoe's relentless sense of superiority and divine purpose. This sequel lacks the isolation that made the first book legendary, but it offers something rarer: a man who cannot escape himself.
