Desert island Autodidactus" inspired Robert Boyle, an acquaintance of Pococke, to write his own philosophical novel set on a deserted island, "The Aspiring Naturalist". Ibn al-Nafis' "Theologus Autodidactus" was also eventually translated into English in the early 20th century. Published in 1719, Daniel Defoe's novel "Robinson Crusoe" about a castaway on a desert island has spawned so many imitations in film, television and radio that its name was used to define a genre, Robinsonade. The novel features Man Friday, Crusoe's personal assistant. It is likely that Defoe took inspiration for Crusoe from a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who was rescued in
Tarzan the Magnificent (novel) Tarzan the Magnificent (novel) Tarzan the Magnificent is a book by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twenty-first in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was originally published as two separate stories serialized in different pulp magazines; "Tarzan and the Magic Men" in "Argosy" from September to October, 1936, and "Tarzan and the Elephant Men" in "Blue Book" from November 1937 to January 1938. The two stories were combined under the title "Tarzan the Magnificent" in the first book edition, published in 1939 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. In order of writing, the book follows "Tarzan's