Ep. 101 STRANGE SURPRIZING ADVENTURES w/ Paul Heron & Neil Scott (Patreon)

Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoewith Paul Heron (@Paul_Heron_) & Neil Scott (@MrNeilScott)This episode of Bistro Californium concerns Daniel Defoe's classic novel The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how we was at last deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself (1719).We discuss the various strange and surprizing qualities of the book, the romance of desert islands, the pleasures of inventory, and the surprizing adventures of Daniel Defoe himself.Welcome to Season 2!"The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity."- James Joyce