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Crusoe (film)

Crusoe is a 1989 film directed by Caleb Deschanel. It is a variation on the story told in the novel Robinson Crusoe, written by author Daniel Defoe. The film stars Aidan Quinn as Crusoe.

Crusoe (TV series)

Crusoe is a television adventure drama (with comedic elements) based loosely on the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008–2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a man who has been shipwrecked on an island for six years and is desperate to return home to his wife and children. His lone companion is Friday, a native whom Crusoe rescued and taught English.

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Ma giudicate voi, che leggete la mia storia, quale fosse la mia sorpresa allorché venni svegliato da una voce che mi chiamava ripetutamente per nome: «Robin, Robin, Robin Crusoe, povero Robin Crusoe, dove sei Robin Crusoe?

La voce però continuava a ripetere: «Robin Crusoe, Robin Crusoe,» cosicché alla fine mi svegliai davvero e balzai in piedi, al colmo dello spavento.

When Crusoe struggles ashore, then builds a raft and removes food, ammunition and wine from the wrecked ship and constructs a tent of sailcloth, the reader is there on the island with him.

Please to consider me, sir, as doing what Robinson Crusoe did, on the present occasion.

Distant colonies were left to fend for themselves, marooned here and there on semihabitable worlds like so many Crusoes on desert islands.