Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox And The Creation Of A Myth
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.
Author: Katherine Frank
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 352
He sees a lone man on a beach. anuary, 1719.A chill, late-winter afternoon, dark closing in.A man sits at a table, writing, in a solid, red-brick house in Stoke Newington, three miles north of the City of London. early sixty, Daniel Defoe is troubled with gout and 'the stone,'burdened with a large family and debts, mired in political controversy and legal threats. But for the moment his bare, wigless head is full of the much younger man on the barren shore - Robinson Crusoe. everal miles south, in the parish of St Peter le Poor, another old man named Robert Knox sits bent over a heavy volume - the only book he has written, published nearly forty years ago. The large folio is now worn and tattered, crammed with extra pages covered in manuscript notes, emendations and revisions. leaner but well-worn copy ofKnox's book is also on the shelf in Defoe's library, perhaps even open on the table as Defoe writes.The title page distils its contents- "An Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon in the East Indies- Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity of the Author and divers other Englishmen now Living there and of the Author's Miraculous Escape.Illustrated with Fi
Author: Katherine Frank
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 352
He sees a lone man on a beach. anuary, 1719.A chill, late-winter afternoon, dark closing in.A man sits at a table, writing, in a solid, red-brick house in Stoke Newington, three miles north of the City of London. early sixty, Daniel Defoe is troubled with gout and 'the stone,'burdened with a large family and debts, mired in political controversy and legal threats. But for the moment his bare, wigless head is full of the much younger man on the barren shore - Robinson Crusoe. everal miles south, in the parish of St Peter le Poor, another old man named Robert Knox sits bent over a heavy volume - the only book he has written, published nearly forty years ago. The large folio is now worn and tattered, crammed with extra pages covered in manuscript notes, emendations and revisions. leaner but well-worn copy ofKnox's book is also on the shelf in Defoe's library, perhaps even open on the table as Defoe writes.The title page distils its contents- "An Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon in the East Indies- Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity of the Author and divers other Englishmen now Living there and of the Author's Miraculous Escape.Illustrated with Fi
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.
Author: Katherine Frank
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 352
He sees a lone man on a beach. anuary, 1719.A chill, late-winter afternoon, dark closing in.A man sits at a table, writing, in a solid, red-brick house in Stoke Newington, three miles north of the City of London. early sixty, Daniel Defoe is troubled with gout and 'the stone,'burdened with a large family and debts, mired in political controversy and legal threats. But for the moment his bare, wigless head is full of the much younger man on the barren shore - Robinson Crusoe. everal miles south, in the parish of St Peter le Poor, another old man named Robert Knox sits bent over a heavy volume - the only book he has written, published nearly forty years ago. The large folio is now worn and tattered, crammed with extra pages covered in manuscript notes, emendations and revisions. leaner but well-worn copy ofKnox's book is also on the shelf in Defoe's library, perhaps even open on the table as Defoe writes.The title page distils its contents- "An Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon in the East Indies- Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity of the Author and divers other Englishmen now Living there and of the Author's Miraculous Escape.Illustrated with Fi
Author: Katherine Frank
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 352
He sees a lone man on a beach. anuary, 1719.A chill, late-winter afternoon, dark closing in.A man sits at a table, writing, in a solid, red-brick house in Stoke Newington, three miles north of the City of London. early sixty, Daniel Defoe is troubled with gout and 'the stone,'burdened with a large family and debts, mired in political controversy and legal threats. But for the moment his bare, wigless head is full of the much younger man on the barren shore - Robinson Crusoe. everal miles south, in the parish of St Peter le Poor, another old man named Robert Knox sits bent over a heavy volume - the only book he has written, published nearly forty years ago. The large folio is now worn and tattered, crammed with extra pages covered in manuscript notes, emendations and revisions. leaner but well-worn copy ofKnox's book is also on the shelf in Defoe's library, perhaps even open on the table as Defoe writes.The title page distils its contents- "An Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon in the East Indies- Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity of the Author and divers other Englishmen now Living there and of the Author's Miraculous Escape.Illustrated with Fi
Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox And The Creation Of A Myth
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