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

Danielle Clode

doi:https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2016/december/3718-danielle-clode-reviews-crusoe-s-island-a-rich-and-curious-history

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

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	35-35
Number of pages	1
Journal	Australian Book Review
Volume	387
DOIs	https://doi.org/https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2016/december/3718-danielle-clode-reviews-crusoe-s-island-a-rich-and-curious-history
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016

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pirates
castaways
madness
Crusoe's Island

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

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