The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as ""The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe"") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantly more popular predecessor, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719), the first edition credits the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author. It was published under the considerably longer original title: "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprising Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe." Although intended to be
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself is a slave narrative written by Josiah Henson, who would later become famous for being the basis of the title character from Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin". "The Life of Josiah Henson", published in 1849, is Henson's first work but was dictated to Samuel A. Eliot, who was a former Boston Mayor known for his anti-slavery views. Although Henson was an accomplished orator, he