Crusoe : Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the creation of a myth / Katherine Frank
2011, First Edition. London : Bodley Head. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. As new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 338 pages; A biography of a book and its hero, the story of Daniel Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe. It explores the intertwined lives of two real men: Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction. 338 p. : ill., facsims., maps ; 24 cm. Subjects: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. -- Robinson Crusoe. English literature -- Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography. "The book captures the vigour, toughness, cruelty, romance and excitement of late 17th-century England and its early imperial adventures" --Independent. "The enthralling Crusoe earns its keep as it weaves together the twin biographies of Knox and Defoe, two extraordinary lives which spiral round like the double helix to produce the DNA of the iconic character in goatskin garments" --Seven. Item #220662
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