Seeking Robinson Crusoe

Seeking Robinson Crusoe explores the legend behind Daniel Defoes classic novel, positing possible places where this famous literary character could have been marooned. The past is brought to life by this epic adventure full of wit and erudition. Furthermore it re-examines and explodes some enduring myths about the claim that Crusoe was based on a real-life castaway, Alexander Selkirk. Effortlessly describing the tropical locales and the practicalities of island life, Tim Severin entwines the fictional and the factual, taking the reader on a voyage of unusual discovery.