Unlike Crusoe, this castaway has no wreck nearby, no dry powder and no calm days for rafting stores. Thrown almost naked onto a Pacific island far from the trade routes, he uses his brains, his hands and a practical knowledge of the arts and sciences to build tools, a home and a whole working settlement, as told in a manuscript found long after.
An ingenious nineteenth-century Robinsonade for readers who enjoy survival and invention. Download the free EPUB.