I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully.... It was a footprint – the footprint of a man!’In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend – or an enemy?

An Oxford Bookworms Library reader for learners of English, adapted from the Daniel Defoe original by Jennifer Bassett.