Megroz’s The Real Robinson Crusoe. The past four years have seen the publication of three distinct and well-researched books ... About this time, Daniel Defoe, a well-known British political ...

Backscheider in Daniel Defoe: His Life (1989) dismisses Knox as an “inferior writer”. Even a specific book on the subject, Tim Severin’s Seeking Robinson Crusoe (2002), ignores Knox. Instead, Severin ...

There are few writers whose lives are as intriguing as their fiction, but Daniel Defoe, author of Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year, an account of his survival ...