Read by Petr Taganov

A sequel to Daniel Defoe's great novel "Robinson Crusoe", which has earned extraordinary popularity in every corner of the globe. The novel tells the story of Robinson, who is bored with the civilized monotonous life. Taking his friend Friday, he goes to a desert island, finds the natives there and gradually creates a world in which he would like to live. In the end, after many years of a life of ease, clouds gather over Crusoe and in one of the battles with the savages he loses Friday. Fleeing the ill-fated island, he makes his way to Asia and decides to return to England, passing through China and Russia. It is interesting that in this book Defoe describes the route of the great navigators who sailed the seas in the XV-XVI centuries and because of various disasters forced to return to their native countries of Western Europe through the Eurasian continent on land. The whole novel Defoe imbued with enlightenment ideas - the glorification of reason, optimism and preaching of labor, as well as narrated that man can survive in any situation thanks to his abilities, the will to live, energy and incessant work

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