This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, and my father wished me to study the law. I would go to sea. A storm took the first ship, pirates took me next and sold me into slavery on the Barbary coast, and I escaped in a fishing boat with a boy named Xury before a Portuguese captain carried me to Brazil and set me up as a planter.
Then came the voyage that ended everything. A hurricane drove our ship onto a reef in the Caribbean and I alone came ashore, and for twenty-eight years I stayed: building a shelter with my own hands, raising goats, sowing barley that came up by accident, teaching a parrot to speak, and reading the Bible on Sundays because there was nothing else to do with the fear. A single human footprint in the sand ends the solitude, and brings Friday.
Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel is the first English novel and still one of the most convincing accounts ever written of a man alone with his own hands and his own conscience. This unabridged recording keeps Defoe's plain, practical, endlessly curious voice intact.
