After surviving a shipwreck Robinson Crusoe finds himself stranded on a desert island with few provisions. Overcoming his initial despair he forges a life on the remote island using when he can scrounge from the wreck and his own ingenuity. As time passes he encounters other marooned individuals and a tribe a vicious cannibals. Eventually joined by a freed prisoner, called Friday, Crusoe endures twenty-seven years on the island before a ship commandeered by mutineers comes near the island and offers the chance of escape. Published in 1719, the book is the original castaway story and his been adapted for stage and screen dozens of times since it first appeared.