ROBINSON CRUSOE - Graded Reader 2 with Activity & CD

Elementary Level Express Graded Readers is a 5-level series that gives learners the chance to extend their English reading skills in the most natural way. Myths, legends and classic stories are retold in language easily understood by learners. Original stories written in a creative way stimulate learners' imagination. A wide variety of science, mystery, action and ghost stories cater for the needs of the most demanding reader. Full-color illustrations and dramatized narration involve the reader in incredible learning adventures. This pack consists of a full-color reader, a workbook and a CD. Robinson Crusoe has captured the imagination of countless readers with its vivid evocation of one man's survival on a remote island, far from the civilization he know. Through to be one of the first English novels, Robinson Crusoe is the timeless story of a merchant's trading voyages and adventures at sea, his shipwreck and subsequent life morooned alone. Bases on the life of Alexander Selkirk, it is fascinating in its descriptions of Crusoe's ingenuity and inventiveness, his ability to make and use tools, his discovery of man Friday and his treatments of him. In addition to this, Robinson Crusoe is also an exploration of the ways in which a man who had made his fortune in trade is able to survive in reasonable comfort, thanks to his resourcefulness when goods and money can no longer be of any value to him.