Friday moved back running and he began to yell loudly. "Master, Master! Frightful! Very terrible, the cannibals!" "What's up Friday?" I asked. "There... there, one, two, three canoe!" "Well, Friday, you shouldn't be afraid of them." I heartened him as possible as I could. He was so trembling that I in a big confusion went to calm him down and explained that I was, too, in menace. I was in as much danger as he, and that they would eat me as well as him. "But", said I, "We must resolve to fight them. Friday,

Issız bir adanın yakınında gemisi batan Robinson Crusoe´nin 28 yıl bir adada yaşantısının anlatıldığı roman.

1632 yılında York`ta, iyi bir ailenin çocuğu olarak dünyaya gelmişim. Bremen kentinden gelen babam, ilk önce Hull`a yerleşmiş. Orada ticaretle uğraşıp iyi para kazanmış ve annemle evlenmiş.