What is the plot of Robinson Crusoe?

bywas published on 25
April 1719. It is written in the form of an autobiography of its fictional eponymous narrator.
Crusoe leaves for his first sea voyage on August 1651, but that ends in a shipwreck. After
several years of additional adventures, he decides to join an expedition of slave traders and
sets sail from Brazil, where he had been living, to Africa. 

On 30 September
1659, this voyage too ends in a shipwreck and Crusoe lands on an isolated, deserted island, the
Island of Despair, which is approximately forty miles from where the Orinoco River meets the
sea. 

The main body of the novel concerns Crusoe's life and adventures on
this island. First, we observe him using his skills and ingenuity to build shelter and obtain a
regular food supply. Over the next 24 years, Crusoe builds a comfortable life on the island,
lacking only human companionship. He also finds consolation in reading the Bible and develops a
providential understanding of his world.

Native cannibals occasionally visit
the island. One of their prisoners escapes and Crusoe names his Friday and teaches him English
and Christianity. He eventually helps rescue others from the cannibals including Friday's
father. An English ship crewed by mutinous sailors passes by. Crusoe helps the captain regain
control of the ship, and returns on it to England. His earlier investments have prospered
although his family is dead. He marries and has children. After his wife dies, he visits his
island again to find it flourishing, has more adventures on the high seas, and then returns home
to live out the rest of his life until his "final voyage" of death and eventual
resurrection.