The life and most surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Who lived eight and twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near ... thence, and his after surprising adventures

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives and mutineers before being rescued.