The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - Audiobook

chapter 1 of the further adventures of robinson crusoe this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by david leon the further adventures of robinson crusoe being the second and last part of his life and the strange surprising accounts

of his travels round three parts of the globe by daniel defoe chapter 1 revisits island that homely proverb used on so many occasions in england viz that what is bread in the bone will not go out of the flesh was never more verified than in the story of my life anyone would think

that after 35 years affliction and a variety of unhappy circumstances which few men if any ever went through before and after near 7 years of peace and enjoyment in the fullness of all things grown old and when if ever it might be allowed me to have had experience of every state of middle life and to know

which was most adapted to make a man completely happy i say after all this anyone would have thought that the native propensity to rambling which i gave an account of in my first setting out in the world to have been so predominant in my thoughts should be worn out and i might at 61 years of age

have been a little inclined to stay at home and have done venturing life and fortune anymore nay farther the common motive of foreign adventures was taken away in me for i had no fortune to make i had nothing to seek if i had gained £10,000 i had been no richer for i had already

sufficient for me and for those i had to leave it to and what i had was visibly increasing for having no great family i could not spend the income of what i had unless i would set up for an expensive way of living such as a great family servants equipage gaity and the like