5/20/2023 0 Comments Going Home by A. AmericanBut Carter's island is a little bigger than Crusoe's, being most of the state of Florida. Morgan Carter, the hero of Going Home, is what they now call a "prepper". The reader gets to participate as Crusoe teaches himself to be a potter, learns how to raise goats, finds and instructs his man Friday on the finer points of the Bible. The title is typical of the genre, which demands that the author offer non-stop detail about surviving, how to live off the land. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Probably the first novel of this genre would be Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or (as the author titled it), 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. The survivalist central creed is It's me against the world.
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