Robinson Crusoe is the top work of Daniel Defoe, and one of the most well-known adventure novels in world literature. Inspired in part by the experiences of the Scottish Alexander Selkirk and the Spanish Pedro Serrano, Defoe gives us the most famous shipwreck of literature, father, when not great-great-grandfather, of a whole lineage. Defoe's novel, originally published in 1719, achieved immediate success thanks to the history of the shipwreck and the exoticism it awakened at the time, but under the background of man's uneasiness to explore its limits, and the fantasy of The utopia of living in complete freedom, has managed to endure until today and become one of the most fascinating novels of adventure. The struggle of a man thrown into an unanswered solitude, to a hostile environment which he must master by means of technique and the force of his will to make "habitable" and "comfortable" a place in principle inhospitable, has also been seen as a metaphor of The Western and bourgeois mind of the world of technology. What makes us human? Is the nature of our being or the technique with which we try to control it to our advantage? This edition is accompanied by the delicate and vivid drawings of one of the most renowned Italian illustrators, Tullio Pericoli. With its elegant and subtle watercolors, centered on the shipwreck and the island, it achieves a harmonious relationship between landscape and man, and emphasizes the importance of space, adding protagonism to nature and making the island the main character of the novel.