Robinson Crusoe
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• Robinson Crusoe is one of the world's most popular adventure novels. Daniel Defoe based his story on an uninhabited(荒无人烟的)island, which is based on a true story.
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• After a few years, he discovers native cannibals(食人动物)who visit the island to kill and eat prisoners at times. When a prisoner manages to escape, Crusoe helps him and keeps him as his sevent. He names his new companion "Friday" after the day of the week he appeared. Crusoe then teaches him English and other skills.
• Sevaral months later, an English ship appears. Crusoe and the ship's captain strike a deal, in which he helps the captain retake the ship from the mutineers(反叛者). They leaves the worst of the mutineers on the island. Crusoe leaves the island on December 19th, 1686, and arrives back in England on June 11th,ears later, he joins an expedition (远征队)to bring slaves from Africa, but is caught in a storm about forty miles out to sea on an island. His companions all die. Having overcome his despair, he takes arms, tools, and other supplies from the ship before it breaks apart and sinks. He starts to build a house near a cave. He keeps a calendar by making marks in a wooden cross, hunts, grows corn, raises goats, etc., using tools created from stone and wood which he harvests on the island, and even adopts a small parrot.