The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
The forgotten sequel that Defoe published in the same year as its famous predecessor, and it may be the more honest book. Having survived twenty-eight years on a desert island and returned to England to find wealth, marriage, and respectability, Robinson Crusoe discovers that some men are not made for peace. The death of his wife and the arrival of a ship bound for the East Indies are all the invitation his restless soul requires. What follows is a globe-spanning adventure that takes Crusoe through Madagascar, across the Indian Ocean to Southeast Asia, and eventually to the frozen borders of Russia. Defoe, writing as Crusoe, transforms the survivor's psychology into genuine literary territory: the terror of solitude, the seduction of the horizon, and the question of whether a man can ever truly come home. This is not the story of a castaway learning to survive, but of a haunted man who cannot stop running.
