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What if coming home with a fortune still cannot quiet your hunger for the sea?
Robinson Crusoe has money, a home in England, and a chance to settle down. He marries, yet comfort cannot hold him. In Daniel Defoe’s The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, his nephew’s offer of a trading voyage opens the way back to sea. With Friday beside him, Crusoe returns to the island and the people he left behind.
The island now holds a small colony of Spaniards and former English mutineers. Old habits and broken agreements threaten its peace, while the rough settler Will Atkins faces tests of his own. Beyond these shores lie the Indian Ocean and the Far East. Trade draws Crusoe onward, into storms, pirates, and crews whose loyalties he cannot take for granted.
What you’ll discover
- A restless man at home Explore why wealth and comfort fail to satisfy a man drawn back toward danger.
- The island after Crusoe Return to a changed island, where settlers struggle to live by their own agreements.
- Friday at his side Join Crusoe and his loyal companion as they leave familiar comforts for uncertain seas.
- Trade on distant shores Follow cargoes, bargains, and risky partnerships through a voyage across the Indian Ocean and beyond.
- A plainspoken adventure Hear Crusoe tell his own story with the directness of a practical man.
Who will love it
Readers who loved Robinson Crusoe and want to know what became of the island will enjoy this. It also suits anyone who likes voyage tales, colony politics, and a narrator who argues with himself.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A rich old man cannot stay home
- Mercy at sea comes before profit
- The island has grown into a divided colony
- A French priest shames Crusoe into caring for souls
- Madagascar shows how a small wrong becomes a massacre
- A trader is hunted as a pirate
- Across Tartary and Siberia by caravan
Who’s who
- Robinson CrusoeAn aging adventurer and narrator who cannot rest at home and sails to his island, then on to Asia.
- FridayCrusoe's faithful companion, who longs to find his father again on the island.
- Will AtkinsA rough English mutineer on the island who wants an easy life and is later changed by his wife's questions.
- The Spanish governorA calm, fair leader of the Spaniards who keeps the colony together and spares English troublemakers out of gratitude to Crusoe.
- The French priestA Benedictine rescued at sea who presses Crusoe to care for the souls of the islanders.
- Crusoe's nephewA young ship captain who carries Crusoe on the voyage but loses control of his crew in Madagascar.
- The Portuguese pilotA clever old sailor who guides Crusoe's party and saves his life on the road to Europe.
- The exiled princeA Russian nobleman in Tobolsk who prefers a quiet exile to return to the Czar's court.
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Las nuevas aventuras de Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe · 1719
A sixty-one-year-old Crusoe leaves his farm and sails back to the island he once ruled alone.
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What does a man do when he has everything he ever dreamed of and still cannot sit still? Robinson Crusoe is sixty-one, rich, and dreaming every night of his island.
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A rich old man cannot stay home
Crusoe opens with a proverb. Deeply rooted traits persist throughout a person's life. At sixty-one he has money, a farm and young children. He has nothing left to seek. Yet his mind keeps returning to his island, and the pull clings to him like an illness. He pictures the old Spaniard, Friday's father and the wicked sailors he left behind.
His wife sees what is happening. One night she tells him she believes Providence is drawing him back. She says she cannot bear to part from him, but she will go with him rather than stand in his way. Her love calms him. He buys a farm in Bedfordshire to keep his hands busy, with ploughs, a cart, cows and sheep. Within six months he is a country gentleman, and for a while the cure works.
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Defoe, Daniel. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-further-adventures-of-robinson-crusoe.
Defoe, D. (2026). The further adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-further-adventures-of-robinson-crusoe (Original work published 1719)
Defoe, Daniel. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-further-adventures-of-robinson-crusoe.
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What is The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe about?
It follows Crusoe in his sixties as he returns to his island colony, then sails and travels through India, Southeast Asia, China and Siberia on a trading journey that brings him back to England.
Do I need to read Robinson Crusoe first?
It helps, because the sequel refers to Friday, the Spaniard and the mutineers. Still, Crusoe explains the past as he goes, so a reader can follow the story and the travels without any difficulty.
What happens to Friday in this book?
Friday comes back to the island with Crusoe and is reunited with his father. Later he faces danger on the voyage to Brazil. His fate is one of the saddest moments in the middle of the book.
The author
Daniel Defoe
1660–1731 · English novelist and journalist
Daniel Defoe was an English trader, writer, and journalist. He was born in London in 1660 and died there in 1731. He wrote Robinson Crusoe and The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year, and Colonel Jack appeared in 1722.
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