Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was first published on April 25, 1719 during the age of exploration and enlightenment. The world was actively explored, mapped, settled, and reported back to various European ports and capitals. Readers in the 1700's considered long distance travel perhaps in the same way we regard space travel today an exotic privileged accessible to a few well trained professions. The average reader of the period barely travelled a more than a few miles from their homes. Stories ...