You might think you’ve already heard a story about someone marooned on an uninhabited island who needs to fight for survival.

After spending 28 years, two months and 19 days marooned on an island, Robinson Crusoe does not lose his nose for adventure or his “native propensity to rambling”. He crosses the Pyrenees, stalked by ...

Cast Away, Francesca de Tores’ second historical novel, tells the story of Alexander Selkirk, the putative inspiration for ...

Mauro Morandi, an Italian gym teacher who abandoned the modern world and lived for three decades on a tiny island off the coast of Sardinia, a real-life adventure story that made him known as a latter ...

Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island.

He survived the last great plague in London and the city’s Great Fire. He was imprisoned and persecuted for his religious and political views. There was no happy ending for the journalist Daniel Defoe ...

On April 25, 1719 — precisely 300 years ago — the London publisher William Taylor issued what has since become one of the most famous books in the world. Its original title page read “The Life and ...

This fascinating novel about 18th-century privateer Alexander Selkirk, abandoned on a tiny island in the South Pacific, becomes a revelatory meditation on humanity ...

Nearly lost at sea, Robinson Crusoe lands on an island only to reckon with isolation, solitude and his own life. Culture Club/Hulton Archive via Getty Images He survived the last great plague in ...

On April 25, 1719 — 300 years ago — the London publisher William Taylor issued what has since become one of the most famous books in the world. Its original title page read “The Life and Strange ...