09 May 2026

Robinson Crusoe

Leaf 384 – Looking Back

 



I first read Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’ (1719) when I was fifteen years old. Nearing fifty last year, I re-read it again for a second time. And, on one particular occasion while doing so, I found myself thinking about how much my life had transformed between those two readings. Somehow, that context seemed oddly apt ...

 

 

At the Immigration Office –

sitting reading

Robinson Crusoe.

 

 

 



Photographs by Tim Chamberlain