Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Willem van de Velde the Elder, Ludolf Bakhuizen and Bonaventura Peeters the Elder. A young man goes to sea against his father's advice, survives storms, slavery and a shipwreck, and finds himself alone on an island where the only proof another human exists is a single footprint. Defoe was fifty-nine when he published it, had been pilloried and imprisoned for his pamphlets, and wrote it as a true account by the man himself — most of his first readers believed it. Fifty-four plates of storm, wreck and shore by painters including Bonaventura Peeters the Younger and Gennaro Greco carry the sea's violence alongside Crusoe's own.