| Robinson Crusoe Contributor(s): Defoe, Daniel (Author), Elphinstone, Margaret (Retold by), Elphinstone, Katy (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1912464217 ISBN-13: 9781912464210 Publisher: Baker Street Press OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Native American & Aboriginal - Fiction | Biographical |
| Lexile Measure: 780 |
| Series: Baker Street Readers |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.40 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Defying his parents, Robinson Crusoe goes to sea. He is captured by pirates but escapes to Brazil. He makes a fortune using slave labor to grow tobacco and sugar. He sails to Africa to bring back more slaves but is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. Everyone else is drowned. For over 20 years he lives alone. He learns to hunt and fish and make shelter. Then the cannibals arrive. Will this be the end of his adventure, or the chance to escape? |
Contributor Bio(s): Defoe, Daniel: - "Daniel Defoe (c. 1660 - 1731) was an English writer, journalist, and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel, Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the founders, if not the founder, of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism."Kincaid, Jamaica: - Jamaica Kincaid is a Caribbean American writer whose essays, stories, and novels are evocative portrayals of family relationships and her native Antigua. Settling in New York City when she left Antigua at age 16, she became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1976. Her books include the short story collection At the Bottom of the River (1983), the novels Annie John (1984) and Lucy (1990), the three-part essay A Small Place (1988), the novel The Autobiography of My Mother (1996) and nonfiction book My Brother (1997). Her "Talk of the Town" columns for The New Yorker were collected in Talk Stories (2001), and in 2005 she published Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya. Her most recent book is the novel See Now Then (2013). |