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- The Best Action Adventure BooksReading list
Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of the most action-packed adventure stories ever written. Crusoe is shipwrecked on a remote island, where he must use all his ingenuity and resourcefulness to survive. Along the way, he encounters indigenous peoples, ferocious animals, and treacherous weather conditions.
- David GoldsteinInterview
As I child I liked The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, and Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes. These were part of the common culture and all my friends seemed to be reading the same books.
- Barbara TverskyInterview
A charming book on world cultures, anthropology, which my beloved grandfather (a warm, wise man who narrowly escaped the pogroms in Russia at 19, arriving alone in NYC with no English) wisely sent me when I was 7. It described creation stories from all over the world and made me a confirmed atheist at a young age…
- Adam MartinakisInterview
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe comes to mind when I think of my childhood. It was the first book that I remember reading, a kind of Odyssey for the children.
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