Daniel Defoe

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Part 1 Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe is a sailor from York who, on an expedition through Africa by ship, is captured by pirates and becomes a slave. He manages to escape and is helped by a Portuguese navy captain, who goes to Brazil. In this last place he settled for a while but the option to sail to Africa again arises, it is there where the ship wrecks and he is the only survivor, managing to reach an island of which he seems to be the only inhabitant. When he finally begins to adapt to solitude and settle on the island, he discovers that he is not alone in it, since a cannibal indigenous tribe visits the island frequently for their rituals and feasts. Crusoe immediately helps one of his prisoners who was about to be executed to escape. As they have met on a Friday, Crusoe calls him "Friday" and they forge a sincere friendship, despite the fact that they do not coincide in language or culture. Together they decide to help the other prisoners captured by the natives, one of whom is a Spaniard who is also a castaway awaiting the arrival of a ship.