Crusoe

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<p>It is January 1719 and Daniel Defoe, almost sixty, sits at a table, writing. He is troubled with gout and debt, but for now is preoccupied with a younger man on a barren shore Robinson Crusoe, for which he will principally be remembered.</p><p>Several miles south, an old man, Robert Knox, is bent over a heavy volume. It is<i>Historical Relation</i>, his account of being held captive on Ceylon, published forty years ago after he escaped and returned to England. It has long been out of print, but a copy perhaps sits on the desk of Daniel Defoe as he writes.</p><p>Where did Crusoe come from? And what is the secret of his endurance?<i>Crusoe</i>explores the intertwined lives of two real men Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction. It is the biography of a book and its hero, the story of Defoe, the man who wrote<i>Robinson Crusoe</i>, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe.</p>

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Born and educated in America, Katherine Frank is the author of several acclaimed biographies - of Lucie Duff Gordon, Emily Bronte, Mary Kingsley and Indira Gandhi. She lives in England.

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