The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe sailed into Hamburg (18 September), and Hague. He arrived at London on 10 January 1705, having been gone from England ten years and nine months. 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
The Island Queen (novel) islands of Oceania. The novel's major themes include 19th century British imperialism, the value of Christianity, and the development of social hierarchies. Ballantyne published the novel after having moved from Edinburgh to Harrow, a north London borough, to allow his children to finish school in 1873. The novel begins with the Rigonda family and two men aboard a castaway ship somewhere in the south Pacific. The family finds a hidden cache of food and they land safely on a nearby island. After finding shelter they set out to explore the island. They soon find that everything they need seems to