Running away to sea brings adventure and wealth, but then come shipwreck
and a desperate struggle for survival. 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 twenty 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?
Real Reads are accessible texts designed to support the literacy
development of primary and lower secondary age children while
introducing them to the riches of our international literary heritage.
Each book is a retelling of a work of great literature from one of the
world's greatest cultures, fitted into a 64-page book, making classic
stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young readers as
a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting access to other
cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the
original versions.