Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is the compelling saga of a shipwrecked sailor cast ashore on a desert island, and forced to wait twenty-eight years for rescue. Defoe’s fascinating story — Crusoe’s struggle to survive, his attempts to manufacture the comforts of civilization, and his relationship with the native, Friday — provides a study in man’s adaptability, the merits of hard work, and the power of faith. Pat Boyette’s illustrations evoke perfectly both the desolation of Crusoe’s plight and the joy of his eventual redemption.