Robinson Crusoe is Daniel Defoe’s classic story of a shipwrecked hero and his lonely adventure. Despite the wishes of his parents, Robinson Crusoe is determined to devote himself to a life at sea. Luck, however, is not with him in his various voyages – his first is shipwrecked and his second taken by pirates, yet nothing dissuades him from his passion. One day, en route to Africa, his ship is wrecked, leaving him marooned on an uninhabited island, with no way to return to civilization.