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Nearly 300 years ago, the English writer Daniel Defoe wrote a book called The...
Nearly 300 years ago, the English writer Daniel Defoe wrote a book called The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the story of a seaman set ashore for years.Robinson Crusoebuilt himself a house, domesticated goats and built a boat.He faced great troubles but he survived and was rescued in the end by an English ship.Since its publication in 1719, the book has inspired a sense of adventure in many readers.One of those readers was a young man named Takahashi Daisuke.Born in 1966 in Akita, he read Robinson Crusoe as a boy and felt drawn to the world it told about.He would catch fish in a river near his house and cook them over a fire, or plant sticks in the family yard to build himself a hut.To his parents, he must have seemed a typically mischievous kid, but in his own eyes this was serious.He wonderd: "What if I were set ashore on a deserted island like Crusoe?Would I be able to survive by making a hut and learning to hunt the way he did?"Defoe's story lit a flame in his mind, sparking a love for adventure that lasted into his adult years.(続きを読む)
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