On an uninhabited island a boy is suckled by a doe and grows up without language or teachers. Watching his foster-mother die, dissecting, observing the stars and the turning seasons, he reasons step by step from the bodies around him to the soul, the heavens and a single necessary Being, before at last meeting other men and their religion.
A twelfth-century Andalusian philosophical romance, here in the English version of 1708, often read as a forerunner of Robinson Crusoe. Download the free EPUB.