Roy Marsden plays the older Robinson Crusoe looking back on a life of recklessness, daring and adventure - and the survival of twenty-eight years, two months and nineteen days on a desert island. Paying no attention to his parents' warnings he runs away to sea to embark on a series of thrilling adventures- struggles with Barbary pirates, a shipwreck and the extraordinary meeting with Man Friday. Young Robinson Crusoe has a burning ambition to be a sailor. inventory #33659 Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers.Ĭompact Disc. a Robinson Crusoe who has finally mastered himself. And at the end of his long ordeal we witness a rebirth: We see a mature Robinson Crusoe who has doggedly conquered his environment and rekindled his faith in his Saviour. We share his struggle for survival feel his despondence at hearing no human sound but the echo of his own despairing prayers suffer his hostility toward a God he feels has unjustly forsaken him. In this great work Defoe introduces us to an immature Crusoe, floundering as aimlessly through life as he later is to flounder helplessly in the grip of a savage sea. But more than a story of man against nature, Robinson Crusoe is a penetrating study of a universal problem - man against himself. here is Daniel Defoe's immortal tale of a young merchant seaman cast ashore on an uninhabited tropical island, destined to spend twenty - four years in isolated loneliness.
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