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Robinson Crusoe

Chapter 3: THE ILLUSTRATIONS
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About This Book

A seafaring man recounts his long struggle to survive after a shipwreck strands him on a remote island. He salvages supplies, fashions tools and shelter, cultivates food, and adapts European techniques to establish a solitary household. Over years he records daily routines, religious reflection, and practical inventions, and he fortifies against occasional threats. Discovery of visiting cannibals leads him to rescue a native whom he names Friday and to instruct him in language and faith. Together they defend against raids and eventually secure passage off the island, concluding a narrative of endurance, improvisation, and cultural encounter.

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

“For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well—” Frontispiece
FACING
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“My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design” 2
“—and making it into a great cross, I set it up on the shore where I first landed—” 84
“All this while I sat upon the ground, very much terrified and dejected” 106
“In the morning I took the Bible; and beginning at the New Testament, I began seriously to read it—” 126
“I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it away in a great basket which I had made” 154
“—and thus I every now and then took a little voyage upon the sea” 182
“I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition” 204
“I laid me down flat on my belly on the ground, and began to look for the place” 242
“—and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head” 270
“—we cut and hewed the outside into the true shape of a boat” 302
“—and no sooner had he the arms in his hands but, as if they had put new vigor into him, he flew upon his murderers like a fury” 312
“At first, for some time I was not able to answer him one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground” 362

Note. The paintings by Mr. N. C. Wyeth, reproduced in this volume, are fully protected by copyright.