ROBINSON CRUSOE: the summary
Robinson
is an ambitious young man who leaves his family to indulge his desire for sea
voyages.
A
first shipwreck and a period of slavery don't put him off. Rescued by a
Portoguese ship, he goes to Brazil
where he becomes a rich ter. But during a voyage to Guinea to buy black slaves for his friends'
tations he is shipwrecked on a desert island off the mouth of Orinoco River where he remains for about 28 years . In this period, with the help of a few things saved
from the shipwreck, he succeeds in making a tolerable life for himself. He
domesticates some animals and one of the cannibals who occasionally land on the
island becomes his faithful servant, Friday.
Eventually
a ship of mutineers lands on the island. Crusoe rescues its officers and is
taken back to England.
