Robinson Crusoe is the fictional autobiography of the title character.

As a young man, Crusoe sets out from England on a disastrous sea voyage.

His passion for seafaring remains undiminished and so he sets out again, only to be shipwrecked a third time.

His journey takes him to Brazil where he becomes a plantation owner.

A third and final shipwrecking, however, leaves him stranded for 28 years on a remote island.

There he becomes a devout Christian and believes his life lacks nothing but society.

The work is sometimes credited with being the first English novel.