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And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Written by Himself. To which is added a Map of the World, in which is Delineated the Voyages of ''ROBINSON CRUSOE. LONDON'': Printed for W. Taylor at the ''Ship'' in ''Pater-Noster-Row.'' MDCCXIX.

The first thing that appears to the reader is the absence of [[Daniel Defoe]]'s name., Thissupporting volumethe mayfiction havethat beenit was written by Robinson Crusoe, and probably at least edited by Defoe.

The book starts with the statement about Crusoe's marriage in [[England]]. He bought a little farm in [[Bedford]] and had three children: two sons and one daughter. Our hero suffered a distemper and a desire to see "his island." He could not talk of nothing else, and one can imagine that no one took his stories seriously, except his wife. She told him, in tears, "I will go with you, but I won't leave you." But in the middle of histhis felicity, Providence unhinged hishim at once. It, waswith the loss of his wife.

'''Crusoe's return to his island'''