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 ...

This was a favourite childhood book, and when I read it as an adult I also appreciate Defoe's journalistic and political bent of mind – a ma ...

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 ...