About this audiobook
Robinson Crusoe leaves the life expected of him in search of a different future, but a shipwreck places him in circumstances he has never chosen. Alone on an island, he must turn the available materials and his own experience into the means of survival. Shelter, food and the organisation of time become urgent practical questions.
Daniel Defoe follows how repeated work gradually gives shape to an unfamiliar world. Success depends on observation, patience and the ability to learn from failure. Yet practical achievement cannot entirely remove loneliness or fear, and encounters with others change the meaning of the life Crusoe has constructed.
The novel considers independence, resourcefulness and the relationship between necessity and habit. Its adventure is sustained by the detail of making a life where ordinary support is absent, while its first-person narrative reveals a man interpreting his experience through the beliefs and assumptions of his own time.
