Crusoe's Island: Rich and curious history of pirates, castaways and madness by Andrew Lambert

Danielle Clode

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    Abstract

    The story of Robinson Crusoe, penned by Daniel Defoe in 1719, is one those remarkable books that created a new genre. The ‘Robinsonade’ or castaway story became one of the most popular forms of adventure novel, inspiring a host of famous ‘imitators’: Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide (1894), R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island (1858), and Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1874). Defoe’s tale also inspired true adventure. Matthew Flinders was ‘induced to go to sea against the wishes of my friends from reading Robinson Crusoe’. In the sizeable shipboard library of French explorer Lapérouse, there was only one novel: Robinson Crusoe
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)35-35
    Number of pages1
    JournalAustralian Book Review
    Volume387
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2016

    Keywords

    • pirates
    • castaways
    • madness
    • Crusoe's Island

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