A pirate capture, a castaway island...In 1722, a young fisherman named Philip Ashton became the central figure in what became ...

19, No. 1, Jan., 1920 Daniel Defoe and the Palatine Emigration... Daniel Defoe and the Palatine Emigration of 1709: A New View of the Origin of Robinson Crusoe This is the metadata section. Skip to ...

Over the course of 28 years, Crusoe adapts to the life on the island, building shelters and finding food. His resilience, ...

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 ...

Daniel Defoe, 1719 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 man not prepared to take anything at ...

A stunning home with links to Daniel Defoe and the real-life Robinson Crusoe has been put up for sale for more than £3million. Villa Crusoe was built in the early 1920s by the wealthy Wade family ...

Throughout his life Daniel Defoe was never far from trouble and died hiding from creditors. Philip Palmer's biographical drama tells the story of a man trying to survive in an extremely hard world.